Olethreutes valdanum

Appearance

Basal and median areas dark olivaceous black-brown, separated by a band of whitish color containing a few dark dots in form of a broken central line: this pale band is upright with margins slightly waved. Median band outwardly with two blunt teeth and an indentation of pale color below inner tooth. The usual dark triangular spot near anal angle and an oblique band running inward from center of outer margin and joined to first costal spot by fine line; a narrow dark area below apex sending hair-lines to costal spots and separated from
subapical band by a narrow band of whitish. Remainder of outer area pale, same color as inner band, slightly clouded with smoky. Fringes irregularly checkered black and white. Secondaries dark smoky with pale fringes.
Expanse 17 mm.

Naming

Olethreutes valdanum McDunnough, 1922
Exartema valdanum McDunnough,1922

Distribution

Records from Manitoba to New Brunswick, south to Tennessee and Missouri.

Food

Larval hosts include: white meadowsweet (Spiraea alba), sweetgale (Myrica gale), northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica), dogwood (Cornus).