Euclea or Parasa? - Euclea

Moved

Moved from Spiny Oak-Slug Moth.

… Steve Nanz, 30 July, 2018 - 3:27am

Moved

Moved from Euclea.

… Jason D. Roberts, 25 January, 2011 - 2:17pm

not sure

See my comment here. I'm wondering if this should be moved to genus.

… Steve Nanz, 29 July, 2018 - 6:30am

Probably

As much as I hate to say, it probably should be. In light of Marc's comments, and with this being right smack in that zone where the hybridization has been observed, anything further than genus is really just a guess. Funny enough, looking at it now, it strikes me more as an aberrant incisa - so genus level is probably best. Perhaps we might need a page for indeterminable green Euclea?

… Jason D. Roberts, 29 July, 2018 - 9:28am

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 6 May, 2010 - 9:04pm

For what it's worth...

this non-expert would go with Euclea--either incisa or delphinii.

But please wait to get the opinions of those more knowledgeable about moths than I.

EDIT: After some more reading, it appears that nanina is indeed another possibility (as Primrose suggests). Evidently these are quite variable. Euclea looks right, though.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 6 May, 2010 - 4:23pm

Thank you Ken,

yep, I noticed that ID is difficult with this species but glad to at least know it's Euclea. I kind of ruled out nanina because of all the green in this specimen but apparently they show up in a lot of different colors so it could be that too.

… biologie, 6 May, 2010 - 4:32pm

jumped gun

Just about to edit my post and take off nanina!

… Primrose, 6 May, 2010 - 4:29pm

thanks Primrose

for helping me narrow it down to Euclea because I've been staring at moth pictures all day and just when I think I've id'd genus and species I find something new to stare at until they all look the same!

So, now I'm looking at E. incisa or E. delphinii. Will be interesting to see what others think about this one.

… biologie, 6 May, 2010 - 4:39pm

I'm just going to sit back

and wait for the lep experts at this point. I certainly can't take it any further. :)

… Ken Wolgemuth, 6 May, 2010 - 4:30pm

euclea

Euclea has a brown thorax and parasa, green.

… Primrose, 6 May, 2010 - 4:19pm

Ah! Thanks. :)

… biologie, 6 May, 2010 - 4:40pm