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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Caberini » Chloraspilates » Bicolored Chloraspilates - Hodges#6700 (Chloraspilates bicoloraria)
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moth - Chloraspilates bicoloraria
Copyright © 2017 Dave Barker

moth - Chloraspilates bicoloraria
29.797438, -100.997888, Val Verde County, Texas, USA
February 6, 2017
Size: approx .9 cm
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Contributed by Dave Barker on 8 February, 2017 - 9:04pm
Last updated 9 February, 2017 - 2:07pm

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… A. Hendrickson, 9 February, 2017 - 2:07pm login or register to post comments

Chloraspilates minima
I agree- this looks like Chloraspilates minima to me. I have a similar recent image I'll submit now
… Hal Livings, 9 February, 2017 - 1:13pm login or register to post comments

 
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Hal, I have thought that I have C. minima also, but the Texas Lepidopterist Society has never recognized a specimen in Texas. They much think all of our color variations are of the same species. I sent one to BOLD and it also came back identified as C. bicolorata. See the discussion here . I just posted my BOLD submission. I had an even browner one the same night but it got damaged
… A. Hendrickson, 9 February, 2017 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Chloraspilates bicoloraria
Thanks Ann. That was very useful. I have another photo I took last night which shows the contrasting, browner hindwing. Unfortunately, the photo is out of focus, so I haven't submitted it.

It is interesting that the Texas Lepidopterist Society doesn't recognize Chloraspilates minima in Texas. The range map on MPG shows on sighting west of San Antonio, so I assumed it was a Texas species. Just another example of the challenge in getting the species ID correct!
… Hal Livings, 9 February, 2017 - 3:46pm login or register to post comments

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I am pretty sure this is Chloraspilates bicoloraria. Have sent a specimen to BOLD thinking I had something else to no avail.

The Texas Lepidopterist Soc. database does not show any other species in Texas.
… A. Hendrickson, 8 February, 2017 - 10:40pm login or register to post comments

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