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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Catocalini » Underwings (Catocala) » Charming Underwing - Hodges#8867 (Catocala blandula)
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Catocala 1676 - Catocala blandula
Copyright © 2008 Steve Nanz

Catocala 1676 - Catocala blandula
Monhegan Island, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
August 27, 2007
Catocala blandula? Not very confident with this one.
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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 29 March, 2008 - 4:42am
Last updated 2 November, 2009 - 4:21am

Moved
Moved from Underwings. I didn't think it made sense to leave it at the genus level but will defer to others if this is a bad call.
… Steve Nanz, 5 June, 2008 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

Catocala blandula
Catocala blandula looks good. C. mira doesn't have that dark of basal shading. And C. crataegi has a break in the outer black band of the HW, whereas it appears your specimen doesn't have a broken band. But this is another one that I'd prefer a second opinion on.
… Jason D. Roberts, 30 March, 2008 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

 
OK, I'll Wait
I think that both hind wings have a folds in them, where the break in the the black band would be, making it tough to tell if the band is unbroken. Not sure it matters, though, because MPG shows examples in the pinned series of C. blandula with a broken band here. Or could this be an ID error?
… Steve Nanz, 31 March, 2008 - 4:37am login or register to post comments

 
black band
It is possible according to some literature for blandula to have a break in the marginal HW band, but in my experience it has always been an unbroken band. And Bill Oehlke observes that blandula has diagonal stripes that go from the inner "shoulder" area of the thorax to the insertion on the anal margin of the FW, which crataegi does not have (also absent on your specimen); though I don't know how reliable or diagnostic this is. I do think your photo is of a blandula, but I admit it's tough to rule out crataegi.
… Jason D. Roberts, 31 March, 2008 - 8:07pm login or register to post comments

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