Ashy Suleima

Appearance

Palpi, face and head white ; the outer sides of palpi faintly dusted with fuscous. Thorax dark brownish fuscous; tegulae shaded with white. Fore wing dark brownish fuscous with entire dorsal margin and ocelloid patch white and a few short white dashes on costa near apex; along the entire length of dorsal edge of white dorsal strip, a series of small fuscous dots; ocellus with one or two longitudinal black streaks; cilia whitish heavily dusted with blackish fuscous especially above tornus. Hind wing pale smoky fuscous, darker towards outer margin and apex; cilia whitish with dark basal and subterminal bands.

Naming

Suleima cinerodorsana Heinrich, 1923

Specific epithet means "ash-colored dorsum."

Distribution

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio,
Ontario, Quebec, Texas, Wisconsin

Food

Larvae feed on several species of sunflower (Helianthus).