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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Acronictinae » Dagger Moths (Acronicta) » Cottonwood Dagger Moth - Hodges#9205 (Acronicta lepusculina)
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Cottonwood Dagger Moth - Acronicta lepusculina
Copyright © 2015 Ilona L.

Cottonwood Dagger Moth - Acronicta lepusculina
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
July 30, 2015
IDed as A. lepusculina by Chris Schmidt. Comment from C. Schmidt on FB Moth and Moth-watching group -- "Although vulpina is usually paler, lepusculina is very variable and Midwestern ones can be nearly white. Vulpina has the PM line more offset towards the wing base and usually has an orbicular spot that is mostly absent in lepusculina...FW shape is more acute in lepusculina." Second comment: "The dark patch in the postmedial area near the anal margin is more offset towards the wing base in vulpina compared to lepusculina, where the whole PM line is more even."
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Contributed by Ilona L. on 13 October, 2015 - 12:40pm
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