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Drasteria sabulosa - Drasteria
Copyright © 2007 John Davis

Drasteria sabulosa - Drasteria
Blue Lake gravel pit, 400 ft., Skamania County, Washington, USA
August 8, 2007
Attracted to lights. MONA 8623.
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Contributed by John Davis on 27 August, 2007 - 11:18am

Drasteria nichollae
Drasteria nichollae (Hodges' List # 8624). It differs from Drasteria sabulosa mainly by subterminal line, which is obvious only near the costal margin and except that is very obscured or completely absent in D. nichollae, and is in well defined through its entire length in D. sabulosa. D. sabulosa has also more eastern distribution: Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico. It is replaced by D. nichollae in British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and northern California. However it is possible that D. nichollae is just a western subspecies of D. sabulosa.
… Jan Metlevski , 5 September, 2007 - 11:05pm login or register to post comments

 
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I think that using the list on the All Leps site and the information I have for Washington State, the correct name would be D. sabulosa, but they are probably the same critter.
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