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. Adults are on the wing from September through mid-October and can be found in patches throughout the Great Lakes region of North America. It has been recorded from

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. Their habitats include wetlands such as emergent marsh, southern wet meadow, wet prairie, wet-mesic sand prairie, prairie fen, southern hardwood swamp, mesic southern forest and dry-mesic southern forest.

Hosts

Larvae feed on lilies and May apple. Also bottlebrush grass ('' Hystrix patula'') and dark green bullrush (''

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''). The larva bores into the shoot or roots of its host. The larvae start in grass and then generally switch to ''

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'' and related plants and ''

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Status

Uncommon to rare.

References

Moths described in 1874 Papaipema {{Hadeninae-stub