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Spotted Fan-wing Moth ?? ID Needed - Enaemia pupula
Copyright © 2007 Bob Patterson

Spotted Fan-wing Moth ?? ID Needed - Enaemia pupula
Anhinga Trail, Everglades N. P., Dade County, Florida, USA
March 14, 2007
Need help IDing a recent Florida beauty. Returning to cold Maryland in a couple of days.

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Spotted Fan-wing Moth ?? ID Needed - Enaemia pupula Spotted Fan-wing Moth ?? ID Needed - Enaemia pupula
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Contributed by Bob Patterson on 18 March, 2007 - 10:15am
Last updated 18 March, 2007 - 8:07pm

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This is Lactura pupula, a fine looking creature.
Gayle
… Gayle and Jeanell Strickland, 18 March, 2007 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Gayle
I should have checked the micros but was fixated on this being an Arctiid. I added a photo from the restroom mirror giving a hint of the hindwing color. Now I wish I had pestered it a little to get it to flare those wings for me.
… Bob Patterson, 18 March, 2007 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

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