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Bent-line Carpet - Hodges#7416 (Costaconvexa centrostrigaria)
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Copyright © 2016
Marcia Morris
Xanthorhoe lacustrata -
Costaconvexa centrostrigaria
Verona, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
June 4, 2016
at the porch light
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Contributed by
Marcia Morris
on 4 June, 2016 - 9:02pm
Last updated 9 May, 2017 - 3:42pm
Moved
Moved from
Toothed Brown Carpet
.
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Marcia Morris
, 9 May, 2017 - 3:42pm
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Marcia, are you sure? This looks to me more like Bent-line Carpet - Hodges#7416.
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Nigel Grindley
, 8 May, 2017 - 4:33pm
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I am not an expert
but the pm line seems to be uninterrupted across the wing, though I see that is the case in this identification:
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Marcia Morris
, 8 May, 2017 - 4:53pm
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I'm no expert either!
but let me try to convince you! You have a beautiful example
of Xanthorhoe lacustrata that shows the "smoothly curving AM line" and the single, pronounced, dentate kink in the PM line both characteristic of the species. The submission here lacks these features but has AM and PM lines both very similar to the image you attached
. In addition, to my eyes, your image really does have the interrupted PM area characteristic of Costaconvexa centrostrigaria although it is fairly subtle (as it is in the Clay Nichols image).
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Nigel Grindley
, 9 May, 2017 - 3:22pm
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I agree
Clay Nichols' image convinced me.
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Marcia Morris
, 9 May, 2017 - 3:41pm
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