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Haploa species

Hi Marcia!
Any idea of species? My first guess is that this might be a variant of confusa; the colors are more yellow and orange. However, the two I collected at Rice are a lot larger than MPG's specimens of Haploa (up to as high as 40mm). Mine are 50 and 54.
What if we're looking at something new?

… James R Thompson, 4 September, 2014 - 8:25am

Hi Jim!

Bob Patterson had this to say about unmarked Haploa - I received the following from Chris Schmidt, leading specialist in Arctiidae (to whom I had sent the photos): "Most if not all Haploa species express this unmarked form, and there really is no reliable way to determine which this one is - however one can usually get a "most likely" by associating them with marked forms that occur at the same time/habitat." http://bugguide.net/node/view/280245/bgimage

Did you have one of the marked forms among the moths that you gathered?

By the way, have you been able to make a list of the insects you gathered so that I can add them to the list to provide the Director of the Rice Center?

… Marcia Morris, 4 September, 2014 - 6:40pm

Haploa sp.

Yes, both I collected were marked, and again, not much to be found like them on MPG. I'll post pics on Bug guide.
I have an incomplete list; mostly lepidoptera. I'll email it to you.

… James R Thompson, 6 September, 2014 - 2:22pm