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Xanthorhoe lacustrata - Costaconvexa centrostrigaria

Xanthorhoe lacustrata - Costaconvexa centrostrigaria
Verona, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
June 4, 2016
at the porch light

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Marcia, are you sure? This looks to me more like Bent-line Carpet - Hodges#7416.

 
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:

 
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).

 
I agree
Clay Nichols' image convinced me.

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