Catocala bastropi Kons & Borth, 2017
This recently described small yellow-hindwinged Catocala appears to be limited to xeric upland habitats in a relatively limited region to the west of the
Mississippi River drainage basin:
bastropi forms an allopatric
sibling species pair with
louiseae, which occurs east of the
Mississippi primarily in Florida and coastal Georgia. The larva of bastropi remains unknown, but it
doubtless feeds on Ericaceae as do larvae of the other members of this tight-knit species group i.e.,
andromedae,
gracilis, and
sordida.
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