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Achatia distincta
The adult Distinct Quaker has a wingspan from 30-37 mm. Forewing pale brownish-gray with short dark band running parallel to inner margin midway along the wing, and a broader band extending diagonally foreward to the costa; subterminal area whitish, bordered distally by slightly darker band, both containing several thin black longitudinal lines; reniform spot large and yellowish, orbicular spot large and whitish; several short oblique dark bars distributed along the costa; hindwing grayish-brown, darker at outer margin.
Range is most of United States plus southeastern Canada (Quebec to Manitoba).
Larvae feed on leaves of ash, birch, butternut, flowering crabapple, grape, hickory, maple, oak. Hodges#10518
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