Prostoia completa

Prostoia completa (Walker, 1852) Notes This species is commonly known as the Ozark Forestfly (Stark et al. 2012). The distribution of this common, widespread species extends from eastern Canada west and southwest across much of the eastern USA (DeWalt et al. 2024, Grubbs and Baumann 2023). However, populations from southern Illinois west to Oklahoma now refer to P. ozarkensis Baumann and Grubbs, 2014 (Grubbs et al. 2014). Several studies have been conducted on the life history and ecology of this species, all documenting univoltine-fast life cycles for larvae and a summer-autumn egg diapause (Harper 1973 a, Ernst and Stewart 1985, Harper et al. 1991 b). In New York, adults of P. completa were collected from mid-March through late June (Fig. 18). This species was recorded from a wide range of elevations (63-548 m asl; Fig. 19), and appears to be common and abundant with numerous records from Level III Ecoregions Northeastern Highlands (58), Northeastern Coastal Zone (59), and Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands (60) (Fig. 20 f).