In New York State, this species is found exclusively in the open-canopy dwarf pine barrens and pitch pine-oak heath woodlands of Long Island. Pitch pine and scrub oak are the dominant plant species in both of these habitats. It is suspected that the larval food source is scrub oak.

Dwarf pine plains A woodland community dominated by dwarf individuals of pitch pine and scrub oak that occurs on nearly level outwash sand and gravel plains in eastern Long Island. The soils are infertile, coarse textured sands that are excessively well-drained.

Pitch pine-oak-heath woodland A pine barrens community that occurs on well-drained, infertile, sandy soils. The structure of this community is intermediate between a shrub-savanna and a woodland. Pitch pine and white oak are the most abundant trees.

Toothed Apharetra (Apharetra dentata) Herodias Underwing (Catocala herodias) Jair Underwing (Catocala jair) Melsheimer's Sack Bearer (Cicinnus melsheimeri) Packard's Lichen Moth (Cisthene packardii) Projecta Gray (Cleora projecta) A Moth (Dasychira pinicola) A Geometrid Moth (Euchlaena madusaria) Violet Dart (Euxoa violaris) Coastal Barrens Buckmoth (Hemileuca maia ssp 5)

Orange Holomelina (Holomelina aurantiaca) Yellow-Spotted Graylet (Hyperstrotia flaviguttata) Barrens Itame (Itame sp 1) Pale Green Pinion Moth (Lithophane viridipallens) A Slug Moth (Monoleuca semifascia) Pink Sallow (Psectraglaea carnosa) A Noctuid Moth (Schinia spinosae) Gordian Sphinx (Sphinx gordius) Pine Barrens Zale (Zale sp 1 nr lunifera)