Yellow Wave Moth

Appearance

Head: Yellow, hairy (rough scales). Palpi yellow, underside dark brown.
Antenna: Simple, dark, more than half as long as wing.
Thorax: Yellow.
Wings: Yellow. Narrow dark streak from base along costa to mid wing, connecting to large dark semicircle. Another dark patch on costa near wing tip. Inner margin has large patch at mid wing, irregular and narrowing. Another small patch near wing tip. Fringe on inner margin very long, yellow; shorter around wing tip, sometimes stained slightly with brown spots. Hind wings dark purplish-brown.
Legs: Pale brown and yellow.
Abdomen: Abdomen brown, yellowish tip. Underside yellowish.

Distribution

Eastern half of U.S., Texas and Oklahoma; Ontario.

Food

Fungus and rotting vegetation