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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Heteranassa » Heteranassa mima - Hodges#8659 (Heteranassa mima)
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Erebid Moth - Heteranassa sp. - Heteranassa mima
Copyright © 2015 Joshua G. Smith

Erebid Moth - Heteranassa sp. - Heteranassa mima
Anthem, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
February 26, 2015
Size: Around an inch
This moth has some good markings. It's either Heteranassa mima or H. fraterna.
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Contributed by Joshua G. Smith on 27 February, 2015 - 10:57pm
Last updated 22 September, 2016 - 11:29am

Moved
Moved from Heteranassa.

Now only one species in genus. Heteranassa fraterna was synonymized with H. mima by Homziak et al. (2015)
… Steve Nanz, 22 September, 2016 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… A. Hendrickson, 27 March, 2015 - 5:15pm login or register to post comments

Moth
Your right, they are pretty variable. Thanks for the genus ID! I will leave it at Heteranassa until further info.
… Joshua G. Smith, 28 February, 2015 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

Heteranassa sp.
This looks like a Heteranassa sp. to me, but I'm not sure which species. I'm not confident separating them. Although the guide says that fraterna does not have white in the reniform and mima does (although not consistently), several of BOLD's fraterna photos do show white in the reniform, so I'm not sure if that is a safe characteristic to separate the two species.
… Josiah Gilbert, 27 February, 2015 - 11:30pm login or register to post comments

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