JoURNAL OF Tue LepriporrerRistTs9 SOCIETY Volume 59 2005 Number 2 Journal of the Lepidopterists9 Society 59(2), 2005, 61-82 NEW RECORDS OF MICROLEPIDOPTERA IN ALBERTA, CANADA GREGORY R. POHL Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320 - 122 St., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6H 385 email: [email protected] CHARLES D. BIRD Box 22, Erskine, Alberta, Canada TOC 1G0 email: [email protected] JEAN-FRANCOIS LANDRY Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6 email: [email protected] AND Gary G. ANWEILER E.H. Strickland Entomology Museum, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2H1 email: [email protected] ABSTRACT. Fifty-seven species of microlepidoptera are reported as new for the Province of Alberta, based primarily on speci- mens in the Northern Forestry Research Collection of the Canadian Forest Service, the University of Alberta Stricdland Museum, the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes, and the personal collections of the first two authors. These new records are in the families Eriocraniidae, Prodoxidae, Tineidae, Psychidae, Gracillariidae, Ypsolophidae, Plutellidae, Acrolepi- idae, Glyphipterigidae, Elachistidae, Glyphidoceridae, Coleophoridae, Gelechiidae, Xyloryctidae, Sesiidae, Tortricidae, Schrecken- steiniidae, Epermeniidae, Pyralidae, and Crambidae. These records represent the first published report of the families Eriocrani- idae and Glyphidoceridae in Alberta, of Acrolepiidae in western Canada, and of Schreckensteiniidae in Canada. Tetragma gei, Tegeticula corruptrix (Prodoxidae), Scythris mixaula (Xyloryctidae), Nemapogon acapnopennella (Tineidae), Plutella vanella (Plutel- lidae)) , Acrolepiopsis liliitvora (Acrolepiidae), Glyphipterix montisella (Glyphipterigidae), Glyphidocera hurlberti (Glyphidoceridae). Synanthedon culiciformis (Sesiidae), Epinotia albicapitana (Tortricidae), Schreckensteinia festaliella (Schreckensteiniidae), and Epermenia lomatii (Epermeniidae) are reported for the first time in Canada. As well, further Alberta records of the rarely collected species Blastodacna curvilineella (Elachistidae) and Wockia asperipunctella (Urodidae) are given. Additional key words: distribution, faunistics. Alberta is a large province (> 660,000 square km?) in Papilionoidea, Drepanoidea, Geometroidea, and western Canada, comprising primarily boreal forest in Noctuoidea) and the microlepidoptera (primitive the northern half, and aspen parkland and prairie in groups up to and including the Pyraloidea and the southern half, with the Rocky Mountains and Thyridoidea). foothills along the western border. Its lepidopteran The first checklist of Alberta Lepidoptera was fauna contains elements from all of these ecoregions, published by Frederic Hova Wolley-Dod between as well as some exotic introductions. Most of the 1901 and 1906 as a series of articles in The Canadian province was covered by ice in the last glaciation; Entomologist (Wolley-Dod 1901a, b, 1904, 1905a-f, consequently its fauna contains many post-glacial 1906a-c). It listed 613 species of macrolepidoptera, immigrants and few endemic species. Nevertheless, it and a few of the larger microlepidoptera in the has a large and diverse lepidopteran fauna, estimated families Hepialidae, Cossidae, and Sesiidae. In 1951, to contain approximately 3000 species, almost evenly Edmonton Lepidoptera collector Kenneth Bowman divided between the macrolepidoptera (sensu published a comprehensive list of Alberta Kristensen 1999; the superfamilies Mimalonioidea, Lepidoptera, including 657 microlepidoptera and Lasiocampoidea, Bombycoidea, Hesperioidea, 1168 macrolepidoptera species and varieties. Since 62 JOURNAL OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS9 SOCIETY that time, many taxonomic revisions have been SPECIES ACCOUNTS published detailing new records for the province. In ERIOCRANIIDAE recent years, the authors have collected Eriocrania semipurpurella (Stephens, 1834) microlepidoptera extensively in Alberta and have ID: A small (12 to 14 mm WS) moth with dark brown examined specimens in local public collections. The FW. The FW has a purplish metallic lustre, and a small current paper reports 57 new Alberta records resulting triangular white mark on the caudal margin, from this work, and additional localities for two species immediately basad of the tornus. Davis (1978) provides previously reported in single locations in the province. a full description and illustrations. Although it is very MATERIALS AND METHODS similar to other species in the family, it is the only This list is based on our examination of material species known to occur in western North America. housed in the Northern Forestry Centre Research AB REC: Edmonton, 20 May 1948, K. Bowman [UASM]. Edmonton, CFS Northern Forestry Centre Collection (NF RC), Edmonton; the Strickland Museum compound, 53.49138°N 113.54390°W, 28 April 1998, of the University of Alberta (UASM), Edmonton; the G.R. Pohl [NFRC]. 8 km SE of Sherwood Park, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and 53.47792°N 113.22912°W, aspen forest, 21 April 2000, Nematodes (CNC), Ottawa, Ontario; the Agriculture diurnal [POHL]; 11 April 2001, diurnal [POHL]; 19 and Agri-Food Canada Research Lab collection April 2001, diurnal [POHL]; 16 May 2002, at dusk, (AGRL), Lethbridge; the Olds College Insect A.J.P. Deneka [POHL]. 8 km NW of Winfield, 53.01°N Collection (OLDS), Olds; and the personal collections 114.50°W, 900 m, 5 May 2001, UV LT [BIRD]; 12 May of the first two authors (POHL, BIRD) and of Douglas 2001, MV light [BIRD]: 12 May 2003, UV LT [BIRD]. Macaulay (DAM) of Barrhead, Alberta. Identities have DIST: Previously known to occur in eastern North been confirmed via comparison with cited publications America as far W as Black Sturgeon Lake, Ontario and reference collections, and consultation with (subspecies semipurpurella (Stephens)), and in western appropriate taxonomic experts, as noted below. For the North America (subspecies pacifica Davis) in Alaska, more difficult species, the genitalia were dissected and British Columbia (Vancouver Island), and Washington examined. When av ailable, published revisions were (Davis 1978). It is widely distributed in southern and used to make identifications; for groups which have not central Alberta in boreal and mixedwood areas. been revised in the past 100 years; identifications were BIO: This species is an inhabitant of moist aspen made via comparison to authoritativ ely identified forests. Adults can be quite numerous on warm sunny specimens at the CNC. Voucher specimens of all days in early spring. Larvae are leaf blotch miners. species are deposited at NFRC, except as noted. Unless Subspecies semipurpurella feeds on Betula otherwise noted, all BIRD specimens were collected by (Betulaceae); in British Columbia, pacifica may feed on C.D. Bird, and all POHL specimens were collected by Holodiscus discolor (Pursh) Maxim. (Betulaceae) (Davis G.R. Pohl. Abbreviations used are as follows: N, north; S, south; 1978). COM: All Alberta specimens examined by the E, east; W, west; FIDS, Canadian Forest Service, Forest authors conform to the pacifica subspecies. This is the Insect and Disease Surv ey; FW, forewi ing; HW, first report of the family Eriocraniidae in Alberta. hindwing; LT, light trap; MV, mercury vapour; UV, ultraviolet: WS, wingspan. PRODOXIDAE Species are presented in taxonomic order based on Lampronia russatella (Clemens, 1860) the higher phylogeny presented in Kristensen (1999), ID: A small (13 to 15 mm WS) moth with a and species-level arrangements in the taxonomic distinctive pattern of white or pale yellow marks on the revisions cited below. FW (Fig. 1), comprias ciomnplget e basal band, median For each species treated we provide a brief synopsis costal and dorsal patches, and a distal patch on the of information under the following headings: ID: costal margin which may be absent in some specimens. diagnostic characters allowing identification of the The background color of the FW is bronzy brown with a species in the context of other species known from western Canada; AB REC: Alberta specimens examined metallic lustre. Dietz (1905) provides a brief treatment of the species, in the genus Incurvaria in the family by the authors; DIST: general distribution of the Tineidae. species, as represented in the literature; BIO: a AB REC: 8 km SE of Sherwood Park, 53.47792°N summary of known biological information including 113.22912°W, aspen forest, 20 June 2000, at dusk host records: COM: any other comments. [POHL]; 13 July 2000 [POHL]. 3 km W of Touchwood VOLUME 59, NUMBER 2 63 8 Fics. 1-8. Microlepidoptera new to Alberta. 1, Lampronia russatella, 13.5 mm WS, 3 km W of Touchwood Lake, 22 June 1994 J.-F. Landry; 2, Plutella vanella, 17.0 mm WS, 8 km NW of Winfield, 17 July 2003 C.D. Bird; 3, Acrolepiopsis lilitvora, 14.5 mm WS, 8 kn SE of Sherwood Park, 21 April 2001 G.R. Pohl; 4, Blastodacna curvilineella, 16.3 mm WS, Rochon Sands Provincial Park, 1 May 2004 C.D. Bird; 5, Xenolechia velatella, 14.1 mm WS, Rochon Sands Provincial Park, 3 May 2001 C.D. Bird; 6, Acleris paracinderella, 16.8 mm WS, Kananaskis, Elbow Ranger Station, reared, emerged 29 August 1951; 7, Lozotaenia hesperia, 23.2 mm WS, 20 km NE of Zama City, 7 July 1997 G.R. Pohl: 8, Gretchena semialba, 12.6 mm WS, Wandering River. 64 JOURNAL OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS9 SOCIETY Lake, E of Lac La Biche, 22 June 1994, daytime meadows, where it can be locally abundant. Larvae are sweeping mosses and sphagnum in boggy swamp, J.-F. known to feed on Geum triflorum Pursh (Rosaceae) Landry [CNC]. (Davis et al. 1992), DIST: Previously known only from eastern North Tegeticula corruptrix Pellmyr, 1999 America, from Montreal, Quebec, and Ithaca, New York ID: A relatively large (22 to 35 mm WS), stout- (Dietz 1905). bodied moth with immaculate white FW and brownish BIO: Unknown. grey HW. Pellmyr (1999) provides a description and COM: The genus Lampronia is in need of revision. illustrations, including mouthpart and genital characters The status of this and other species may need to be for separation from other species of Tegeticula. revised in light of a full examination of genitalic AB REC: Lost River Valley, 1 km N of the Montana structures. border, 49.01046°N 110.44424°W, 28 June 2001, Lampronia capitella (Clerck, 1759) shortgrass prairie, hand collected from Yucca glauca ID: A small (13 to 15 mm WS) moth with a one Pohl, Macaulay & Machney [NFRC] (2 distinctive pattern of white marks on the FW, specimens). Onefour, 9 July 1950, A. Hewitt [AGRL]. comprising an incomplete basal band, median costal Onefour, 9 July 1950, K. Bowman [UASM]. and dorsal patches, and a distal patch on the wingtip. DIST: Although its occurrence in Alberta in The background color of the FW is bronzy brown with a sympatry with T. yuccasella (Riley) has been noted in a metallic lustre. This species has not been treated in the unpublished reports (Perry 2001; COSEWIC 2002), North American literature. Medvedev (1978) provides this is the first published record of T. corruptrix in genitalia illustrations, and Parenti (2000: Plate 33) Canada. It was previously reported from the western provides an excellent color BPECIeEE PL: USA, from California to Texas, north to southern AB REC: Barrhead, 2 June 1997, D. Macaulay Montana. The Onefour area represents the northern [DAM]. Long Lake, eee forest at lakeshore, 17 June limit of Yucca glauca Nutt. (Liliaceae) and of Tegeticula 1999, UV light [POHL]. species in Canada. DIST: A Holarctic species, reported in North BIO: The genus Tegeticula has a_ well-known America only from Quebec (Handfield 2002). There are mutualistic relationship with Yucca plants (Pellmyr et al. specimens in the CNC from Ontario, Quebec, and 1996). Moth larvae are dependent on the plant for food, British Columbia. and the plant is dependent on the moths for pollination. BIO: In Europe this species feeds on shoots and buds Tegeticula corruptrix is a recently recognized species of Ribes (Grossulariaceae) (Medvedev 1978). Heath & that 'cheats' by ovipositing in the developing seeds Pelham-Clinton (1976) provide an account of its life without pollinating the flowers (Pellmyr 1999). Larvae history in Great Britain. are known to feed on a number of Yucca species COM: Known in Europe as the Currant Shoot Borer. (Pellmyr 1999). Yucca glauca is the only Yucca species See note on the genus Lampronia under L. russatella occurring in Canada; it is restricted to several hundred above. plants at two sites near Onefour. Tetragma gei Davis & Pellmyr, 1992 TINEIDAE ID: A small to medium-sized (11 to 17 mm WS) light Nemapogon acapnopennella (Clemens, 1863) grey moth, with a few scattered darker scales on the ID: A small (14 mm WS) dark brown and pearly FW. Females are larger than the males, and have an extremely long abdomen ending in a sharp ovipositor. white mottled moth (Fig. 17). The wing pattern is rather nondescript, but is subtly different from other species of Davis et al. (1992) provides a description and the genus known to occur in northwestern North illustrations. America. Dietz (1905) provides a_re-description. AB REC: Porcupine Hills, Skyline Road, 49.93597°N Genitalia illustrations of this species have not been 113.97926°W, montane pine/fir meadow, 3 July 2002, published. diurnal, D.W. Langor & G.R. Pohl [NFRC] (2 AB REC: Edmonton (edge of Fulton Ravine), specimens); [CNC] (2 specimens). 53.545°N 113.439°W, 21 July 2001, sesiid pheromone DIST: This is the first record of this species in trap, G.G. Anweiler [NFRC] (5 specimens). Touchwood Canada. It was previously known from the northwestern Lake, 30 km E of Lac La Biche, Rge. 10 Twp. 67 Sec. 32 United Sates, in eastern Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, W 4th Mer., 29 June 1994, UV trap M2-2, G.R. Pohl et and South Dakota, although it was expected to have a al. [NFRC]; Rge. 10 Twp. 68 Sec. 3 W 4th Mer., 14 July broader distribution (Davis et al. 1992). 1995, UV trap 04-5/6, D.W. Langor et al. [NFRC] (2 BIO: This species occurs in high elevation forb-rich VOLUME 59, NUMBER 2 specimens). from several tree species in eastern Canada (Prentice DIST: This is the first record of this species in 1965); presumably feeding on lichens on the boles. Canada. It was previously known only in eastern USA, COM: This species was originally placed in the genus in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington DC, and Solenobia, which is now considered a junior synonym of Louisiana (Dietz 1905). Specimens in the NFRC from Taleoporia (Karsholt & Razowski 1996). Saskatchewan have recently been identified as this Dahlica triquetrella (Hiibner, [1813]) species. ID: The adult female is a minute (3 to 5 mm length) BIO: Unknown. Larvae of other members of the wingless moth which remains associated with the larval genus feed on bracket fungi (Lawrence & Powell 1969). case. Males have not been found in North America. Adults are rarely collected at lights. Larvae are the most often encountered life stage; they COM: It is interesting that several adults were can be found in distinctive three-sided cases collected in a sesiid trap; they were males, and were approximately 8 mm long, moving about on house walls. observed in the trap performing complex behavior Leech & Sugden (1967) provide a description and consistent with courtship. The pheromones of this illustrations of the larva, larval case, and adult female: species are not known, but may contain components Medvedev (1978: Fig. 105) provides male illustrations. chemically similar to those in the sesiid bait. The The larvae and females look very similar to those of identity of the specimens listed above was confirmed by Talporia walshella (see above); the larvae of these D. R. Davis (National Museum of Natural History, species are indistinguishable, and the females are Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA). separable only via microscopical examination of Another, possibly undescribed species of Nemapogon, abdominal spines, as described by Sauter (1956). externally similar to N. acapnopennella but with AB REC: vicinity of Blackfalds, June 2000, J. Broatch different genitalia, has been collected in sympatry with [NFRC] (6 specimens). 8 km E-SE of Sherwood Park, N. acapnopennella at the Touchwood Lake site reported October 1998, exterior house walls [POHL] (3 above (Pohl et al. 2004). It may prove to be conspecific specimens); May 1999, reared [POHL] (2 specimens). § with an undescribed species similar to N. km SE of Sherwood Park, 53.47792°N 113.22912°W, acapnopennella reported from Quebec (Handfield May 2000, exterior house walls [POHL]. 1997). DIST: This species has been introduced to North America from Europe. It was established in Vernon, PSYCHIDAE British Columbia and Montreal, Quebec by 1927 Taleporia walshella (Clemens, 1862) (Leech & Sugden 1967). It was unknown in the ID: A small (12 to 15 mm WS) nondescript moth. Edmonton area as recently as the 1980s, but has Males have an indistinct FW pattern of chestnut brown become quite common since then. marks over a light brown background; females are BIO: Larvae feed on lichens, and can be found wingless and rarely collected. Davis (1964) provides a actively moving about throughout the summer and on detailed description and illustrations. The larvae and warm winter days. They are abundant in the Edmonton females look very similar to those of Dahlica triquetrella area, on the walls of buildings. Females are short-lived, (see below); the larvae of these species are and lay eggs on their larval case. indistinguishable, and the females are separable only via COM: The North American population of this microscopical examination of abdominal spines, as Palaearctic species appears to be entirely composed of described by Sauter (1956). parthenogenetic, wingless females. W 8inged males are AB REC: Cypress Hills, Elkwater Lake, 17 June known from Europe (Sauter 1956). Listed) under 1996, at light [POHL]. 29 km NE of Zama City, 59.33°N Solenobia in Hodges et al. (1983), the species is now 118.43°W, boreal forest, 17 June 1997, UV trap, G.R. placed in Dahlica (Karsholt & Razowski 1996). Pohl et al. [NFRC] (5 specimens); 27 May 1998, UV trap, H.E.J. Hammond et al. [NFRC] (4 specimens). GRACILLARIIDAE DIST: This is the first record of the species in Micrurapteryx salicifoliella (Chambers, 1872) northwestern North America. It was previously ID: A minute (9 to 12 mm WS) moth with very reported from eastern North America as far N as Sault narrow wings and a distinctive FW pattern of diagonal Sainte Marie, Ontario (Prentice 1965), and as far W as white marks on a dark brown background (Fig. 18). Ives Illinois (Davis 1964). & Wong (1988) provide a brief description and BIO: Larvae construct and live in elongate triangular illustrations of the adult, larva, and blotch mine. cases made of sand grains and debris, from which they AB REC: Junction of Ft. Chipewyan winter road and feed on lichens (Davis 1964). They have been reared 66 JOURNAL OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS9 SOCIETY Richardson River, 58.0079°N 111.0271°W, river margin, July 1998, 14 August 1998, 18-25 August 2000, 14 12 June 2000, diurnal, G.R. Pohl et al. [NFRC] (2 Se Eee 2000, LT, E. Mengersen [BIRD] (2 specimens); 13 June 2000, UV trap, G.R. Pohl et al. specimens); [NFRC]; [OLDS] (12 specimens). Stettler [NFRC] (2 specimens). Edmonton, Winterburn Road, County, McKenzie Crossing, 13 km W of Big Valley, 15 20 April 1983, G.D. Braybrook [CNC]. High Level, ex. September 2000, E. Mengersen [OLDS]. Salix sp., reared, emerged 2-7 August 1963 [NFRC] (7 DIST: This introduced European species has not specimens); [CNC] (2 specimens). High Level, ex. Salix been previously reported in western North America. It sp.. reared, emerged 27-29 July 1964 [NFRC] (3 is listed by Handfield (1997) as occurring in specimens). 30 km S of High Level, ex. Salix leaf mines, Quebec/Labrador, and by Forbes (1923) as occurring in reared, 8 July 1993, D.W. Langor [NFRC] (7 northeastern USA (treated by the latter as "Cerostoma specimens); [CNC] (4 specimens). Highway 35, 20 km S [=Plutella] xylostella Linnaeus", a name that now refers of Indian Cabins, ex. Salix sp., reared, 15 July 1990 to the diamondback moth; however the description by [NFRC]. Keg River, ex. Salix sp., reared, 27 July 1965 Forbes unmistakably refers to Y. dentella). [NFRC] (3 specimens). Marguerite Crag & Tail BIO: Larvae feed on Lonicera (Caprifoliaceae). Provincial Wildland Park, 57,T 1O7°N 110.3337°W, Agassiz (1996) provides a short account of the life stream margin, 15 June 2000, adults on Salix, G.R. Pohl history. et al. [NFRC] (7 specimens). Maybelle River Provincial COM: This species is known as the European Wildland Park, 58.2092°N 110.9234°W, sand dunes, 12 Honeysuckle Leafroller. It has probably been June 2000, at dusk, G.R. Pohl et al. [NFRC]. Paddle introduced to our area within the last four decades. Prairie, ex. Salix sp., reared, emerged 22-28 July 1964 [NFRC] (6 specimens). 8 km SE of Sherwood Park, PLUTELLIDAE 53.47792°N 113.22912°W, 28 October 2001, diurnal Plutella vanella Walsingham, 1881 [POHL]. Steen River, ex. Salix sp., reared, emerged 5- ID: A medium sized (15 to 17 mm WS) moth with a 13 August 1963 [NFRC] (6 specimens); [CNC] (3 distinctive FW pattern, consisting of a chocolate-brown specimens). 29 km NE of Zama City, 59.33°N 118.43°W, background, two diagonal white bands which converge boreal forest, 25 May 1997, 4 June 1997, 6 August 1997, on the caudal margin, and a white mark on the costal UV trap, G.R. Pohl et al. [NFRC] (8 specimens). margin between the diagonal bands (Fig. 2). This DIST: Ives & Wong (1988) report this species from species has not been treated in the Nearctic literature the Prairie Provinces, but give no specific provincial or since its original description. locality records other than the fact that it has been AB REC: Banff, ex. white spruce, reared, 26 July abundant in north-central Saskatchewan. The NFRC 1952 [CNC]. 23 [miles?] W [of] Banff, ex. white spruce, contains specimens from Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and reared, 21 August 1953 [CNC]. Bearberry Creek near Northwest Territories. Sundre, 23 July 1926, C.H. Young [C NC]. Belly River, BIO: Larvae are blotch miners on Salix (Salicaceae) ex. white spruce, reared, 26 July 1954 [CNC]. Big Horn species. Adults emerge in August and remain active into River, ex. white spruce, reared, 18 July 1952 [CNC]. 20 October. They overwinter as adults, and reappear on miles W-SW Claresholm, ex. willow, reared, emerged 22 warm days from March to May the following spring. July 1956 [NFRC]. Clearwater County, 30 km W of They tend to fly at dusk, but are sometimes collected at Sundre, NE 12 Twp. 34 Rge. 7 W 5th Mer., 1-14 August lights. 1999, E. Mengersen [OLDS] (6 specimens). Clearwater County, 10 km NW of Bearberry, 24 July 2001, 4 August 2001, 15 July 2002, 19 July 2002, E. Mengersen [OLDS] (11 specimens). Entrance, 7A ugust 1963. LT YPSOLOPHIDAE [NFRC]. Erskine, 52.32°N 112.88°W, 800 m, aspen Ypsolopha dentella (Fabricius, 1775) parkland, 20 July 2002, UV LT [BIRD]. Ft. McMurray, ID: A medium-sized (18 to 20 mm WS) moth with Hangingstone River Valley off Highway 63, 56.68490°N falcate FW with a distinctive pattern; the costal three 111. 35508°W, Populus, Picea, Abies & Alnus forest, 12 fourths of the wing is chocolate brown, separated from July 2001, MV light, A.D. Macaulay et al. [NFRC] (3 the yellow caudal area by a thin white line that extends specimens). enmde Cache, 3 km N of South Smoky into the brown area at about two-thirds the distance River Campground, at river, 53.89029°N 119.15671°W, from the wing base. Parenti (2000: Plate 52) provides an 953 m, aspen/spruce forest, 8 August 2003, UV trap, D. excellent color photograph. Macaulay [DAM]. Grande Prairie, 16 July 1963, LT AB REC: Mountainview County, Olds, 4 September [NFRC]. Holmes Crossing Staging Area, 7.3 km SE of 1995, 14 September 1995, 27 July - 4 August 1997, 25 Fort Assiniboine, 54.29403°N 114.86665°W, pine forest, VOLUME 59, NUMBER 2 67 18 July 2003, UV trap, D. Macaulay [DAM]. Jasper, 26 Oregon (Gaedike 1994). July 1926, J.-H. McDunnough [CNC]. La Butte Creek BIO: Some of the type material of this species was Wildland Provincial Park, rock outcrop 13 km E of reared from the bulbs of Lilium washingtonianum Kell. junction of La Butte Creek and Slave River, 59.36549°N (Liliaceae), which does not occur in Alberta. Several 111.12988°W, open Pinus banksiana/Picea, 9 July 2001, other Liliaceae species occur in Alberta (Moss 1983). In UV trap, A.D. Macaulay et al. [NFRC]. La Butte Creek 2003 the authors collected a larva of an Acrolepiidae Wildland Provincial Park, 3 km S of junction of La Butte species which had been mining an unripened fruit of Creek and Slave River, La Butte Point, 59.40578°N fairy bells (Disporum trachycarpum (S. Wats.) B. & H. 111.45251°W, Picea glauca forest, § July 2001, MV light, (Liliaceae)), from the site where the above specimens A.D. Macaulay et al. [NFRC]. Medicine Lake were collected. Recreational Area, 52.749°N 114.744°W, 950 m, COM: The type material of this species included only aspen/alder woods beside lake, 5 August 2003, UV LT six specimens and we are unaware of other published [BIRD]. 8 km SE of Sherwood Park, 53.47792°N records besides the original series and the specimens 113.22912°W, aspen forest, 28 July 2003, MV light reported here. This species was considered distinct [POHL]. Mountainview County, 3 km NE of Bergen, from A. californica Gaedike by Gaedike (1994) on the 17 July 1989, E. Mengersen [OLDS]; Camp Harmattan, basis of slight genitalic differences, and a different host 26 July 1997, E. Mengersen [OLDS]; SW 13 Twp. 33 plant (A. californica was reared from Disporum Rge. 4 W 5th Mer., 26 June 1988, E. Mengersen hookeri). Dr. J.A. Powell (pers. comm.) has reared A. [OLDS]. 38 km NW of Sundre, bench above James californica from both Lilium and Disporum in River, 51.80°N 115.21°W, 1360 m, lodgepole pine, 28 California, and considers A. liliivora to be conspecific July 2002, UV LT [BIRD] (3 specimens). 8 km NW of with A. californica. This is the first report of the family Winfield, 53.01°N, 114.50°W, mixed woods, 15 July Acrolepiidae from western Canada. 2000, 28 July 2000, 11 July 2001, 18 July 2001, 17 July 2003, UV LT [BIRD] (16 specimens); 17 July 2003, MV GLYPHIPTERIGIDAE light [BIRD] (2 specimens). 29 km NE of Zama City, Glyphipterix montisella Chambers, 1875 59.33°N 118.43°W, boreal forest, 28 July 1997, 6 August ID: A small (12 mm WS) moth with greenish brown 1997, UV trap, G.R. Pohl et al. [NF RC] (3 specimens). FW, with a series of white marks along the costal and DIST: This species is reported for the first time in caudal wing margins. Heppner (1985) provides a Canada. It has been treated in the North American description and _ illustrations, including 4g enitalic literature only in California (Powell & Hsu 1998; Powell characters for separation from similar species of 1999). glyphipterigids. BIO: Unknown, other than the rearing note on one of AB REC: Calgary, 17 August 1984, D. Lawrie the specimens listed above. [NFRC]. COM: It is odd that this common and distinctive DIST: This is the first report of this species in species was missed by Bowman (1951). It appears to be Canada. It was previously known from western USA, as generally distributed in the northern half of the far north as Glacier National Park, Montana (Heppner province and in the parkland and foothills. 1985). G.R. Pohl has seen a specimen from the vicinity of Weyburn in SE Saskatchewan. ACROLEPIIDAE BIO: Larvae may feed on one or more species of Acrolepiopsis liliivora Gaedike, 1994 Juncus (Juncaceae) (Heppner 1985). ID: A small (12 to 15 mm WS) moth with brown FW ELACHISTIDAE with diffuse blackish irrorations and a small white Depressariinae triangular oblique mark in the middle of the caudal edge (Fig. 3). Gaedike (1994) provides a description and Semioscopis merriccella Dyar, 1902 genitalia illustrations, including characters for ID: A relatively large (22 to 30 mm WS) grey moth distinguishing it from similar species of Acrolepiopsis. with grey FW extended into a blunt tip, and with an AB REC: 8 km SE of Sherwood Park, 53.47792°N interrupted, wavy black line through the center. It can 113.22912°W, aspen forest, 2] April 2001 [POHL]; 20 be separated from S. packardella (Clem.) by the wavy June 2001, house light, G.R. Pohl [CNC]; 22 June 2002, black line through the FW, which is uninterrupted in MV light, G.R. Pohl [CNC], 14 April 2003, at dusk the latter species. Hodges (1974) provides a description [POHL]. and photograph; Clarke (1941) provides genitalia DIST: This is the first record of the species in illustrations. Canada. It was previously known from California and AB REC: Big Knife Provincial Park, 52.49°N 68 JOURNAL OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS9 SOCIETY 112.22°W, chokecherry/saskatoon, 1 May 2002, UV LT brown scales and two patches of black tufted scales (Fig. [BIRD]; 14 May 2003, UV LT [BIRD] (2 specimens). 4). A black dash is present on some specimens in the Holmes Crossing, 7 km SE of Fort Assiniboine, 12 May center of the FW. Forbes (1923) provides a brief 2001, mixedwood forest, D. Macaulay [NFRC]. Red description; we know of no published illustration ofi t. Deer, 3 May 1923, K. Bowman [UASM]. AB REC: Cypress Hills, 49.57°N 110.35°W, DIST: Hodges (1974) reports this species <from mixedwood hillside, 15 June 1996, UV trap [POHL]. Maine west through the northern tier of States and Cypress Hills, 49.63°N 110.40°W, aspen hillside, 15 June southern Canada to British Columbia= but does not 1996, UV trap [POHL] (2 specimens). Cypress Hills, specifically mention Alberta. Though expected, these Elkwater Lake, 17 June 1996, at light, G.R. Pohl are the first records known from Alberta. [NFRC]; [POHL] (2 specimens). Rochon Sands BIO: Unknown. Provincial Park, 52.46°N 112.88°W, 720. m, chokecherry/saskatoon, 1 May 2004, UV LT [BIRD]. § Depressaria atrostrigella Clarke, 1941 km E-SE of Sherwood Park, wet meadow, 7 June 1996 ID: A relatively large (22 to 25 mm WS) grey moth [POHL]. 8 km SE of Sherwood Park, 53.47792°N with a series of straight black dashes along the veins of 113.22912°W, aspen forest, 20 June 2000, MV light the FW. It is similar in overall habitus to several other [POHL]. species of Depressariinae, but no other North American DIST: This species was previously known from species has this FW pattern. Hodges (1974) provides a eastern United States (Forbes 1923) and description and photograph; Clarke (1941: Fig. 194) Quebec/Labrador (Handfield 1997), and has recently provides male genitalia figures. been reported from Touchwood Lake in east-central AB REC: Buffalo Lake Conservation Area, 52.53°N Alberta (Pohl et al. 2005). The current records indicate 112.70°W, aspen parkland, 17 September 2001, 24 a broader distribution in Alberta. September 2001, UV LT [BIRD] (2 specimens). BIO: Larvae are borers in the fruit of Crateagus and Edmonton, 5 September 1950, K. Bowman [UASM]. related species of Rosaceae (Forbes 1923). Tolman Bridge, 51.33504°N 113.01042°W, 707 m, COM: This species is extremely similar to Stipa/Artemisia grassland, 24 August 2003, UV LT Blastodacna bicristatella (Chambers) (not known from [BIRD] (2 specimens). Tolman Bridge, 51.83461°N northwestern North America), and may be conspecific 113.01139°W, 706 m, chokecherry/aspen, 24 Aug 2003, with it. UV LT [BIRD]. DIST: Previously reported from Manitoba and XYLORYCTIDAE Colorado (Hodges 1974). Scythridinae BIO: Unknown. Scythris mixaula Meyrick, 1916 ID: A medium-sized (18 mm WS), grey to dirty white Elachistinae slender moth, in some specimens with paler streaks Elachista maritimella McDunnough, 1942 highlighting the FW veins. Landry (1991) provides a ID: A small (10 mm WS) variably colored moth with description and _ illustrations, including genitalic narrow wings. The FW is usually grey with two pairs of characters for separation from similar species. The white transverse patches on the leading and caudal coloration of $. mixaula varies across its range from margins at one-third and two-thirds from the base. nearly immaculate ivory white in the South to darker Individual specimens may vary from very dark to grey in the North. The Tolman Bridge specimen is completely white. Kaila (1999) provides a description rather dark grey (though discolored by greasiness) and illustrations, including genitalic characters for whereas the Buffalo Lake specimen is pale dirty white separation from many similar Elachista species. with some pale brown dusting in the middle of the FW. AB REC: 8 km NW of Winfield, 53.01°N, 114.50°W, AB REC: Buffalo Lake Conservation Area, mixed woods, 24 June 2000, UV LT [BIRD]. 52.4985°N 112.702°W, Artemisia grassland, 30 August DIST: Previously known from eastern Canada and 2003, UV LT [BIRD]. Tolman Bridge Recreation Area, from Saskatchewan (Kaila 1999). 16 September 2000, LT, E. Mengersen [CNC]. BIO: Unknown. DIST: This is the first record of the species in Canada. It was previously known from southern Agonoxeninae California to southwestern Texas and the western parts Blastodacna curvilineella (Chambers, 1872) of the Great Plains, N to Montana (Landry (1991). ID: A small (11 to 17 mm WS) moth with lanceolate BIO: Larvae have been reared from cactus, including wings. The FW is cream colored with a dusting of prickly pear cactus (Opuntia spp.) although details of VOLUME 59, NUMBER 2 69 their life history are unknown (Landry 1991). with the distal third of the FW light rusty brown and white, and with brown annulations on the antennae. GLYPHIDOCERIDAE Landry (1998b) provides illustrations of the genitalia Glyphidocera hurlberti Adamski, 2000 and larval case, which allow separation from similar ID: A medium-sized (17 to 19 mm WS) moth with species of Coleophora. greyish brown FW and pale brown HW. Adamski (2000) AB REC: Edmonton, 14-19 June 1940, 11-18 June provides a description and illustrations. It can be 1946, K. Bowman [UASM] (5 specimens). separated from all known Lepidoptera in western DIST: This species was described from Pennsylvania, Canada by the combination of the evenly arcuate HW and has been reported from Nova Scotia, Ontario, terminal margin (separating it from all gelechiids except Quebec, and British Columbia (McDunnough 1946, Anacampsis spp.) and the unique pattern of four Landry 1998b). indistinct dark brown spots on the FW. It can be BIO: Larvae are case-bearers, and feed attached to separated from other Glyphidocera species by the the base of leaf buds of Rosa species (Rosaceae) unique shape of the genitalic structures, as described by (McDunnough 1946). Adamski (2000). AB REC: Big Knife Provincial Park, 52.486°N GELECHIIDAE 112.206°W, 692 m, meadow with aspen/buckbrush, 8 Coleotechnites laricis (Freeman, 1965) July 2003, UV LT [BIRD]. Edmonton, 24 July 1939, 4 ID: A small (10 to 11 mm WS), narrow-winged black July 1940, 20 June 1941, 2 July 1943, 11-27 July 1945, and white moth, very similar to other species of 24 June to 13 July 1950, K. Bowman [UASM] (15 Coleotechnites which feed on conifers. Freeman (1965) specimens). Edmonton, Windsor Park area, 8 July 1998, provides a description and illustrations. It can be UV LT, F.A.H. Sperling [UASM]. Erskine, 52.32°N identified most easily by the mining habits of the larva 112.88°W, 800 m, aspen parkland, § July 2000, 1 August (see below); structural differences separating it from 2000, 12 July 2001, 5 August 2002, UV LT [BIRD]. 12 other species are very slight. km S-SE of Erskine, 52.20°N 112.83°W, 800 m, 24 July AB REC: Edmonton, ex. Larix sp., reared, 3 June 2000, UV LT [BIRD]. Lowden Springs Conservation 1985 [NFRC]. Area, 17 km S of Stettler, 52.09°N 112.425°W, 830 m, 23 DIST: Previously known from the type series, July 2002, UV LT [BIRD] (3 specimens). 3 km S of collected at various localities in Ontario (Freeman Nevis, Allen Hall acreage, 52.31°N 113.05°W, 815 m, 1965), and more recently from Quebec/Labrador aspen parkland, 15 September 2002, 16 July 2003, UV (Handfield 1997). LT [BIRD]. 8 km E-SE of Sherwood Park, wet meadow, BIO: This species is known as the Orange Larch 6 July 1999, at dusk [POHL]. 8 km SE of Sherwood Tubemaker. Larvae are needle miners in larch (Larix Park, 53.47792°N 113.22912°W, aspen forest, 19 July spp. (Pinaceae)) (Freeman 1965). 2000, houselight [POHL]; 11 July 2002, MV light COM: The specimen listed above was identified in [POHL] (2 specimens); 25 June 2003, houselight 1985 by A. Mutuura. [POHL]. Strathcona County, Strathcona Wilderness Xenolechia velatella (Busck, 1907) Centre, aspen forest, 20 July 2001, MV light [POHL]. ID: A medium-sized (14 to 16 mm WS) dark grey DIST: Previously known only from Colorado moth with a unique pattern on the FW; a pale tan costal (Adamski 2000). margin proximally, and a distinct pattern of raised BIO: Unknown. Adults are active at dusk and at patches of black scales (Fig. 5). night, flying and running with rapid jerky movements. AB REC: Big Knife Povincial Park, 52.494°N COM: Prior to it being recognized as a distinct 112.222°W, 675 m, chokecherry/saskatoon, 14 May species in 2000, G. hurlberti specimens were often 2003, UV LT [BIRD] (3 specimens); MV light [BIRD] identified as G. septentrionella Busck. Specimens in the (3 specimens). Buffalo Lake Conservation Area, Bowman collection were found scattered in 52.53°N 112.70°W, aspen parkland, 7 May 2001, UV LT undetermined lots under several families. This is the [BIRD]. Edmonton, 30 May 1946, 26 April 1949, 22 first published report of the family Glyphidoceridae in May 1951, K. Bowman [UASM] (3 specimens). Erskine, Alberta. 52.322°N 112.883°W, 830 m, aspen woods, 20 May 2003, UV trap [BIRD]. Rochon Sands Provincial Park, COLEOPHORIDAE 52.463°N 112.895°W, 830 m, chokecherry/saskatoon, 13 Coleophorinae May 2003, UV LT [BIRD] (8 specimens). 8 km SE of Coleophora rosaefoliella Clemens, 1864 Sherwood Park, 53.47792°N 113.22912°W, aspen forest, ID: A small (11 to 12 mm WS) cream-colored moth 4 June 2000, houselight [POHL]; 2 June 2001, at dusk. 70 JOURNAL OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS9 SOCIETY G.R. Pohl [NFRC]; 25 May 2003, houselight [POHL]; tan costal band bordered by a black mark. Hodges 26 May 2003, MV light [POHL]. (1986) provides a re- description and illustrations. It can DIST: This species was described from Arizona be separated from other species of Dichomeris by (Busck 1907). The only published record of it in details of the FW maculation, or by genitalic characters, northwestern North America is its inclusion in a list of as detailed in Hodges (1986). Lepidoptera specimens collected by FIDS_ in AB REC: 5 miles E Belloy, undisturbed young forest, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, by Wong & Melvin (1969). reared [host recorded as "probably Aster species"], larva BIO: The specimens on which the Wong & Melvin collected 8 June 1967, emerged 28 June 1967 [NFRC]. (1969) report is based are housed in the NFRC; they 12 km S-SE of Erskine, 52.23°N 112.83°W, aspen were reared from Black Knot Fungus (Apiosporina parkland, 15 August 2000, UV trap [BIRD]. 8 km SE of morbosa (Schw.) Arx on Prunus species (Rosaceae) tree Sherwood Park, 53.47792°N 113.22912°W, aspen forest, branches. 5 August 2000, houselight [POHL]. DIST: Previously known from eastern North Caryocolum pullatella (Tengstrém, 1848) America, as far W as Minnesota and eastern Kansas ID: A small (11 mm WS) black moth, with two (Hodges 1986). Handfield (1997) reported it from median grey patches on the caudal margin of the FW, Quebec/Labrador. and a white postmedial line. Huemer (1988) provides a BIO: Larvae are leaf rollers on Solidago and Aster description and illustrations, including genital species (Compositae) (Hodges 1986). characters for separation from other species of Caryocolum. Dichomeris costarufoella (Chambers, 1874) AB REC: J. J. Collett Natural Area, 11 km NE of ID: A small (15 mm WS) moth with dark bluish Lacombe, 52. 33°N 113.28°W, 850 m, 27 August 2002, brown FW. Hodges (1986) provides a description and UV LT [BIRD]. illustrations, including characters for separation from DIST: This holarctic species is known from Europe, similar species of Dichomeris. northern Asia, and Japan. In North America it has been AB REC: 8 km E-SE of Sherwood Park, wet reported in the United States from New York to meadow, 17 July 1998, at light, G.R. Pohl [NFRC]. Oregon, and from Canada in Nova Scotia (Huemer DIST: Previously known from the central United 1988). States, as far W as Nebraska and New Mexico. A single BIO: Unknown. All known hosts of other record was previously known for Canada, at Riding Caryocolum species are in the familyC aryophyllaceae Mountain National Park, Manitoba (Hodges 1986). (Huemer 1988); the host plant of C. pullatella ii s likely a BIO: At Riding Mountain National Park, D. Caryophyllaceae species as well. costarufoella was reared from Rudbeckia species (Compositae) (Hodges 1986). In Michigan, this species Caryocolum cassella (Walker, 1864) is commonly found in loose webs on the underside of ID: A small( 12 to 13 mm WS) black moth, with two Rudbeckia species leaves, especially in areas with sandy median grey patches on the caudal margin of the FW, soils (G. J. Balogh pers. com.). No Rudbeckia species is and an interrupted white postmedial line. Huemer present at the Sherwood Park locality, so it must have (1988) provides a description and illustrations, including other hosts as well. genital characters for separation from other species of Caryocolum. SESIIDAE AB REC: Big Knife Provincial Park, 52.49°N Paranthrene robiniae (Edwards, 1880) 112.22°W, 8 August 2002, UV LT [BIRD]. 13 km W of ID: A relatively large (28 to 35 mm WS) slender Big Valley, McKenzie Crossing, 52.375°N 112.96°W, 16 July 2000, UV LT [BIRD]. moth with a wasp-like appearance. The wings have clear areas and dark brown veins dusted with yellow scales. DIST: This Holarctic species has been reported from Bichlin & Duckworth (1988) provide a description and British Columbia (Vancouver Island), and from Utah, illustrations, including characters for separation from Oregon, Michigan, and Kentucky (Huemer 1988). similar species of sesiids. BIO: In Europe, this species feeds on Stellaria AB REC: Calgary, poplar, 14 June 1970, C. Hergert nemorum L. (Caryophyllaceae) (Huemer 1988). The [CNC] (2 specimens). Calgary, 8 June 1988, A.B. larvae feed in webbed-together shoots, "particularly in Nearling [OLDS]. Crowsnest, 29 June 1957, R. shadowy woodland" (Huemer 1988). Gooding [UASM]. Devon, 28 May 1976 [NFRC]. Dichomeris bilobella (Zeller, 1873) Frank, 18 June 1962, W.R.M. Mason [CNC]. ID: A medium sized (16 to 17 mm WS) blue-grey and DIST: Eichlin & Duckworth (1988) describe the black moth with a triangular FW, featuring a distinctive