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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Azelinini » Pero » Pero modesta - Hodges#6759 (Pero modestus)
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Pero ancetaria - Pero modestus
Copyright © 2014 Donald R Riley

Pero ancetaria - Pero modestus
The Basin, Big Bend Ntl. Park, Brewster County, Texas, USA
September 1, 2014
P. hones-- also seems very close so I would appreciate another opinion. Found at camp light.
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Contributed by Donald R Riley on 12 November, 2014 - 10:24am
Last updated 23 February, 2018 - 10:19am

Moved
Moved from Pero.
… Paul Dennehy, 23 February, 2018 - 10:19am login or register to post comments

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… John S. Ascher, 5 December, 2014 - 6:54pm login or register to post comments

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Wow, that is a tough question absent a hind wing view. I might thinkPero occidentalis, especially the Carles Melton picture on MPG or a better match. Both have no white claviform spot and seem to have traces of white dots in the Sub-apical area.
… A. Hendrickson, 12 November, 2014 - 1:01pm login or register to post comments

 
claviform spot
It seems to me I can see a partial white claviform spot, mostly hidden by the longitudinal fold?
… Donald R Riley, 13 November, 2014 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

 
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Maybe so, but it seems very vague to me.
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