Intractable Quaker
Kocakina fidelis (Grote, 1874)
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Hadeninae
Identification: Forewing grayish to reddish-brown; lines yellowish, broken; spots outlined with yellow; heavy black spot on basal line, fainter black spots on AM and PM lines near inner margin; hindwing grayish-brown, darker toward outer margin
Wing Span: 2.5 to 3.5 cm
Life History:
Flight: March to May, and again in July
Caterpillar Hosts: Leaves of oak, elm, and flowering crabapple ; also reported on hickory and cherry
Adult Food:
Habitat: Dry woodlands
Range: Quebec and Maine to Florida, west to Texas and Kansas
Conservation:
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Comments: The name <i>Himella</i> was first introduced by Dallas in 1852 for bugs of the family Coreidae. Since it is still used as a valid generic name in Heteroptera, and is an older name than the <i>Himella</i> proposed by Grote in 1874, Ozdikmen and Seven proposed that the Lepidopteran <i>Himella</i> be replaced by <i>Kocakina</i>
Taxonomy Notes: Kocakina fidelis (Grote, 1874), was formerly in the genus Himella Grote, 1874, a junior homonym of Himella Dallas 1852, is transferred to Kocakina (Özdikmen & Seven, 2006) (replacement name), a genus which includes as a synonym Orthimella (Schmidt & Lafontaine, 2018) (unnecessary replacement name).
This name was synonymized with Himella intractata (Morrison, 1874) in Hodges et al. (1983) (Checklist) which regarded the publication year of fidelis to be 1875. The synonymy was reversed in Poole (1989) - Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010), ZooKeys, 40:154.
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Observation date: Apr 22, 2022
Submitted by: lassa8
Region: Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
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Observation date: Mar 30, 2022
Submitted by: Mikelchap
Region: Dade County, Georgia, United States
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Verified date: Apr 14, 2022
Observation date: May 13, 2009
Submitted by: rdhealy1951@aol.com
Region: Hart County, Kentucky, United States
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Verified date: Feb 28, 2022
Observation date: May 15, 2021
Submitted by: tirvine2020
Region: Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Verified date: May 17, 2021
Observation date: Apr 28, 2021
Submitted by: blueracer
Region: Ashland County, Ohio, United States
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Verified date: May 10, 2021
Observation date: Apr 28, 2021
Submitted by: tirvine2020
Region: Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States
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Verified date: Apr 30, 2021
Observation date: Apr 27, 2021
Submitted by: MarkNenadov
Region: Ontario, Canada
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Verified date: Apr 29, 2021
Observation date: Apr 12, 2021
Submitted by: MarkNenadov
Region: Ontario, Canada
Verified by: curtis.lehman
Verified date: Apr 13, 2021
Observation date: Apr 07, 2021
Submitted by: JMJaskula
Region: Boone County, Indiana, United States
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Verified date: Apr 08, 2021
Observation date: Mar 30, 2021
Submitted by: dmccord
Region: Hamilton County, Indiana, United States
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Verified date: Apr 02, 2021
Observation date: Mar 21, 2020
Submitted by: Elizabeth Wolfe
Region: Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States
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Verified date: Jan 29, 2021
Observation date: May 31, 2015
Submitted by: BarbSendelbach
Region: Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
Verified by: curtis.lehman
Verified date: Jan 11, 2021
Observation date: Apr 26, 2019
Submitted by: BarbSendelbach
Region: Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
Verified by: curtis.lehman
Verified date: Jan 11, 2021
Observation date: Apr 17, 2016
Submitted by: Wade Wander
Region: Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
Verified by: curtis.lehman
Verified date: Oct 29, 2020
Observation date: Apr 14, 2020
Submitted by: Alexandra Ratay
Region: Suffolk County, New York, United States
Verified by: Sue Gregoire
Verified date: Apr 16, 2020
Observation date: Apr 12, 2019
Submitted by: dmccord
Region: Hamilton County, Indiana, United States
Verified by: rogerdowner
Verified date: Apr 13, 2019
Observation date: Apr 07, 2019
Submitted by: dmccord
Region: Hamilton County, Indiana, United States
Verified by: rogerdowner
Verified date: Apr 08, 2019
Observation date: Mar 10, 2019
Submitted by: Rose A. Payne
Region: Bibb County, Georgia, United States
Verified by: Mikelchap
Verified date: Mar 12, 2019
Observation date: Apr 14, 2018
Submitted by: Dave Webb
Region: Harford County, Maryland, United States
Verified by: rogerdowner
Verified date: Apr 21, 2018
Observation date: Mar 02, 2018
Submitted by: jeffmci9
Region: Texas, Travis County, United States
Verified by: stomlins701
Verified date: Mar 16, 2018
Observation date: Apr 21, 2016
Submitted by: Sue Gregoire
Region: Schuyler County, New York, United States
Verified by: Sue Gregoire
Verified date: Jan 26, 2018
Observation date: Apr 25, 2017
Submitted by: Tom Middagh
Region: Nobles County, Minnesota, United States
Verified by: Tom Middagh
Verified date: Apr 27, 2017
Observation date: Apr 12, 2017
Submitted by: Andy Wyatt
Region: York County, Pennsylvania, United States
Verified by: curtis.lehman
Verified date: Apr 14, 2017
Observation date: Apr 11, 2016
Submitted by: treichard
Region: Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States
Verified by: rogerdowner
Verified date: Apr 14, 2016
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