Catocala concumbens Walker, 1858
A northerly distributed Catocala whose larva can be found on Populus and Salix.
In the species group comprised also of
amatrix,
cara and
carissima.
The beige-colored cranial protrusions characteristic of cara and carissima
are less pronounced in
concumbens
and its head capsule has darker markings, the
body ground color is darker and more brown, the A5 hump less bulbous, and the venter with usually
faint red/pink tinge and black spots throughout (spots limited to
A3-A5 in cara and carissima, and typically just A1-A5 in amatrix).
Wild larval foodplant records in southern Connecticut Populus deltoides to date.
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