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Western Grape Leaf Skeletonizer - Harrisina metallica - male

Western Grape Leaf Skeletonizer - Harrisina metallica - Male
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
July 11, 2012
Size: Roughly 1 inch.
This is the only species of skeletonizer moth I find in my yard, so I am associating it with the only skeletonizer caterpillar I find. It appears that they are both the Western Grape Leaf Skeletonizer. I find them in proximity to my Virginia Creepers.

Moved to Harrisina metallica
Moved from Grapeleaf Skeletonizer.

I'm putting these in metallica until someone can show americana west of central Texas.

Maury, any chance that this is actually metallica
The information we find says that Metallica can have an orange collar. It was only the formerly separate brillians that was all black. We're not certain how to tell the three species apart, but it seems that only east Texas may have all three. Somewhere around Austin and San Antonio is a place where metallica is to the west, americana is to the northeast, and coracina is to the south. Thoughts?

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Linking is reserved for images of one individual insect, if you didn't raise it from the caterpillar it isn't the same individual bug.

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I don't know how to move these.
It is likely that these are not the Harrisina americana, but I don't know how to move them to a broader classification of Harrisina.

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