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Lacinipolia Moth - Lacinipolia acutipennis

Lacinipolia Moth - Lacinipolia acutipennis
In Westwood by outdoor night light; elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
September 13, 2008
Size: Forewing length 14mm
ID to genus provided by BOLD Systems via DNA. A species match was not made. The nearest DNA species match was Lacinipolia pensilis at 98.47% similarity.


ID Update: September 2016
Species ID for this specimen updated by BOLD Systems to Lacinipolia acutipennis.

See here for Lacinipolia acutipennis species page at BOLD Systems:
And here for BOLD's L. acutipennis Public Data Portal - BIN Page.
And here for this specimen's Record Page at BOLD Systems.

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Moved

ID Update:
BOLD ID update to species Lacinipolia pensilis provided on May 14, 2013.

Moved from Lacinipolia.

 
Recheck?
This group was revised by Schmidt 2015 (1) with several changes and one new species added. You might want to check the current status at BOLD. What's the ID? I'm guessing the status has not changed.

 
Well...
... BOLD has revised the ID of this specimen to Lacinipolia acutipennis, as well as two additional specimens that I sent to BOLD. Thank you Steve for informing me of this ID revision.

 
Excellent
That's the species I was wondering about. The paper has a section on separating it and pensilis. I see now that the updated range map does not actually show pensilis in your area which is not to say that won't change. There are, however, two other very similar species within the complex in or near Lassen Co., L. sareta and dimocki, so you might want to keep sending similar examples you find in the future to BOLD.

I moved a couple of Mark's very different examples from San Diego to L. acutipennis. The species is highly variable. The paper notes "Two phenotypes have been recognized as separate species, L. doira of the Great Basin (Figs 49–51) and L. subalba of southern California (Figs 43–45)." The paper lumps the two under L. acutipennis but I imagine they could be re-split. In any case, it looks like we may have examples of both forms.

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