Ottawa (Dunrobin), ON Canada

8 August 2003   10:32PM EST  (top left)
8 August 2003   10:33PM EST  (top right)
3 August 2005   8:54PM EST  (bottom)
The first two photos are of the same specimen.

My thanks to Dr. Jean-François Landry of Agriculture Canada for confirming my identification of a specimen of this moth captured in 2004, and for subsequently informing me of its reclassification/re-naming from Hedya separatana to Metendothenia separatana.   Some additional information on this species has been obtained from Forbes, William T.M., The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Primitive Forms, Microlepidoptera, Pyraloids, Bombyces (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, 1923).

Metendothenia separatana, sometimes termed the Pink-Washed Leafroller Moth, has a forewing that is gray and blackish in its inner two-thirds, and pale pinkish in its outer third.  At about one-third of the way from the base, there is a paler band visible at the costa and at the outer margin, sometimes also washed with pink.  Light gray bands extend from the costa just before the apex, to the outer margin.  There is a sharply defined blackish triangular spot in the middle of the wing near the inner edge of the pale pinkish area.  Forbes (1923) indicates a wingspan of 13 mm.

According to Forbes (1923), the larvae of Metendothenia separatana feed on rose and blackberry.  He indicates an adult flight season comprising May, July and August.

My records to date for Metendothenia separatana (each date representing "the night of") are in the table below: