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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies (excluding skippers) (Papilionoidea) » Metalmarks (Riodinidae) » Calephelis » Fatal Metalmark (Calephelis nemesis)
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What species of moth is this? - Calephelis nemesis - male
Copyright © 2006 durissus

What species of moth is this? - Calephelis nemesis - Male
Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
July 1, 2006
I'm just a beginner at this and my friends showed me this cool website. Hopefully someone can id this and it isn't already posted.
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Contributed by durissus on 13 July, 2006 - 6:23pm
Last updated 2 March, 2009 - 9:28pm

Moved
Moved from Butterflies.
… Tony-2, 9 December, 2006 - 11:22am login or register to post comments

Looks like a Fatal Metalmark.
Looks like a Fatal Metalmark.
… Richard C. Hoyer, 13 July, 2006 - 10:58pm login or register to post comments

It's a butterfly and with those
bright metallic-looking lines along the outer edge, we would say it's one of the metalmarks. You can look at images in the guide here while you wait for a butterfly expert to give you a firm ID.
… john and jane balaban, 13 July, 2006 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

A Metalmark!
I think your bug is a Metalmark (butterfly), not a moth. (They have very moth like behavior, it is true). There's something like 4 genera in the family and I don't know what you could expect in California.
… Steve Pelikan, 13 July, 2006 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

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