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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Leucaniini » Leucania » Unarmed Wainscot - Hodges#10459 (Leucania inermis)
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Unarmed Wainscot - Leucania inermis
Copyright © 2015 Nigel Grindley

Unarmed Wainscot - Leucania inermis
Block Island, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
May 12, 2015
Might this be a Leucania inermis? To my eye, it looks very similar to Tom Murray's #808333.

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Contributed by Nigel Grindley on 19 May, 2015 - 10:28am
Last updated 14 June, 2015 - 2:56pm

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… Nigel Grindley, 11 June, 2015 - 7:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Kyhl Austin, 27 May, 2015 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

 
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Thank you. I wasn't really sure of this.
… A. Hendrickson, 11 June, 2015 - 10:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Leucania
I moved it because I became totally convinced that it was neither L. ursula nor L. pseudargyria. I have just loaded onto the ID request images of one of these latter moths with really abundant scale tufts on the fore tibia (i.e.. really hairy legs)! . I would be grateful for any comments on this new submission.
… Nigel Grindley, 12 June, 2015 - 3:24pm login or register to post comments

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Nigel, looks like the lack of scale tufts on the foretibia distinguishe L. inermis and from L. Ursula but I don't know how to read the that in the images. I liked this comparison better
… A. Hendrickson, 19 May, 2015 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Leucania
Thanks for the comment and the image. Without side-by-side images of the foretibias of the two species, I do not really know what I should be seeing, but I do think the foreleg looks a lot less "hairy" than most L. ursula images. That the reniform spot is only just visible while the orbicular spot is virtually invisible also seems to lead to L. inermis rather than L. ursula.
… Nigel Grindley, 19 May, 2015 - 9:28pm login or register to post comments

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