black-white-orange

Haploa ? perhaps.

Gary

… GaryK, 4 July, 2005 - 9:43am

Thank you Gary

It's nice to be able to put a name on it.

… Jim McClarin, 4 July, 2005 - 1:53pm

I agree

I agree, I have several similar moths that I identified as Haploa sp. I'm not sure it is an easy genus to take to species.

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
www.stephencresswell.com

… Stephen Cresswell, 4 July, 2005 - 10:53am

Thanks Stephen

It was a striking visitor on a night ten degrees too chilly for most beetles.

… Jim McClarin, 4 July, 2005 - 1:54pm

Interesting comment...

It's strange you should mention about the cold. It was pretty chilly here in chicago last night. I went out by the street light and there wasn't much of anything about, except for a few june bugs, and a few small moths. On the ground by the pole I found a Haploa all by itself.

I looked though the variations at the mpg and I think you can say this is the Haploa lecontei - Leconte's Haploa Moth - Hodges#8111, even with all the variations there is one very close to yours named as such over there...

… gehan gehale, 28 June, 2006 - 9:02am

Thank you, Gehan.

I agree so I've moved it to species page.

… Jim McClarin, 28 June, 2006 - 6:30pm