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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » American Silkworm Moths (Apatelodidae) » Apatelodinae » Olceclostera » The Seraph - Hodges#7667 (Olceclostera seraphica)
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Bentsen mystery moth - Olceclostera seraphica
Copyright © 2009 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Joshua S. Rose Ph.D.

Bentsen mystery moth - Olceclostera seraphica
World Birding Center at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
October 3, 2008
Have surfed through most of the Noctuoidea looking for something with such exaggerated leggings (or are they booties?), but not found anything yet. Knudson and Bordelon's LRGV moth books show only pinned specimens, which provides great looks at the often invisible hindwings, but the legs are usually blocked from view...
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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 20 June, 2009 - 4:07pm
Last updated 21 June, 2009 - 9:27am

Moved
Moved from Noctuoidea. Thanks again Bob! Sorry I won't be in your current neighborhood after all...
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 21 June, 2009 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

Probably 7665 - Olceclostera angelica
(no rsvp, thanks)
… Bob Patterson, 21 June, 2009 - 12:51am login or register to post comments

 
Aha!
A Bombycoid! No *wonder* I didn't find it under the Noctuoids...

How about O. seraphica? Not currently pictured on BugGuide, one pinned specimen on MPG, another on the SE AZ moth site. It's the only species of the genus listed in ECK and CB's Macro-moths of the LRGV, and does seem to match my critter's dull coloration more closely. They list it as "Common in the Valley and most of southwestern Texas" and O. angelica as "occurs in east Texas."

BTW, did you catch word yet that I'm moving to Massachusetts, just up the Connecticut River from you (I think), this coming August?
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 21 June, 2009 - 1:09am login or register to post comments

 
Yes, seraphica is more likely.
I left CT 60 years ago (born in New London). You're going to have to buy long johns.
… Bob Patterson, 21 June, 2009 - 2:35am login or register to post comments

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