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Photo#28423
One-spotted Variant Moth - Hypagyrtis unipunctata

One-spotted Variant Moth - Hypagyrtis unipunctata
Fairfield, Butler County, Ohio, USA
August 4, 2005
Size: 25mm wingspan
It looks like we've settled on this being 6654 -- One-spotted Variant Moth -- Hypagyrtis unipunctata...see my original comments and the discussion below.

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Found in the daytime on the side of a building in a residential area. The closest thing I've found is the first image of 6655 -- Esther Variant Moth -- Hypagyrtis esther on MPG. But there appears to be a lot of variability, so I'd appreciate suggestions.

Thanks
Thanks for your comments. I'll go with Hypagyrtis unipunctata unless someone comes along stating otherwise.

No Guarantees Here......
...but that lighter median area makes this a One-spotted Variant in my book. Esthers tend to have darker brown beyond the pm. line and a lighter brown where this one is more white. Problem is, even with Bob Belmont's Hypagyrtis Variants page at MPG, it would take even more photos of authenticated material to clearly delineate where overlaps between the species begin and end. So, even though I'd file it under H. unipuncta, I could very well be wrong.

 
Esther
Esther has been recorded from Ohio, but I've yet to find it. I do have a unipuctata from Ohio that matches this nearly identically.

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