''Zale buchholzi'', or Buchholz's zale, is a moth of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

. The species was first described by James Halliday McDunnough in 1943. It is found in coastal pinelands of the

Atlantic coastal plain The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Afr ...

from New Jersey to Florida, west along the Gulf Coast to Texas. There is one generation per year. The larvae feed on

pitch pine ''Pinus rigida'', the pitch pine, is a small-to-medium-sized pine. It is native to eastern North America, primarily from central Maine south to Georgia and as far west as Kentucky. It is found in environments which other species would find unsuit ...

and

pond pine ''Pinus serotina'', the pond pine, marsh pine or pocosin pine, is a pine tree found along the Southeastern portion of the Atlantic coastal plain of the United States, from southern New Jersey south to Florida and west to southern Alabama. This pi ...

in New Jersey. Larvae have also been recorded on loblolly and longleaf pine in the south.

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"Buchholz's Zale (''Zale buchholzi'')"
''Forest Pests''. Archived October 31, 2007. Omopterini Moths described in 1943 {{Erebidae-stub