Moth - Zanclognatha pedipilalis

Grayish Zanclognatha

See Guide. The straight subterminal line that stops short of the wing edge is distinctive. These are abundant right now in woodland ground cover. Yesterday, I stirred up about 20 and was hoping for other species but all the ones I could get a good look at turned out to be these.

… Robin McLeod, 20 June, 2005 - 9:26am

Note also

the sharp pointed PM line and the dead straight AM lines. My guess is that there are actually 2 species that go under the name pedipilalis. This one with the straight AM lines and Robin's with a somewhat wavy AM line. I photographed one yesteday in NB with the wavy AM line that otherwise looked like the pattern of the current species. So, I think our northern species are different from the southern ones. Don't know which one is the true pedipilalis, depends upon from where the type was collected. Just a thought for this most difficult genus.

… Tony-2, 20 June, 2005 - 9:09pm

8351-Early Zanclognatha Moth -- Zanclognatha cruralis

I just checked out the MPG site, and this is looks like a good match.

… tom murray, 20 June, 2005 - 9:45pm

I agree

with Robin; this is Grayish Zanclognatha (#8348). My point was that there may be 2 sibling species that go by this name. If there are, the one that was named first takes precedent. For now, both should be called Grayish; we need to see a photo of the holotype to be certain.

… Tony-2, 21 June, 2005 - 4:08am

Grayish Zanclognatha

Yours lives up to the name "grayish" better than this one. Thanks for the ID Robin.

… tom murray, 20 June, 2005 - 7:39pm

Zanclognatha?

This looks like it might belong in genus Zanclognatha(1), hopefully someone might be able to get it down to species.

… volcano, 20 June, 2005 - 9:20am