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Pictured Tiger Moth - Arachnis picta ? - but what's the other one? - Arachnis citra
Copyright © 2007 John & Barbara Moerk

Pictured Tiger Moth - Arachnis picta ? - but what's the other one? - Arachnis citra
Canyonlands National Park - Needles District, Utah, USA
August 30, 2006
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Contributed by John & Barbara Moerk on 7 April, 2007 - 7:33pm
Last updated 15 April, 2007 - 10:03pm

The Tiger Moth Appears to be.....
8152.1 - Arachnis citra (form apachea). There has been recent revisionary work done in this group.


© Cliff Ferris at MPG
… Bob Patterson, 8 April, 2007 - 1:19am login or register to post comments

 
separating citra and picta
Bob (or anyone reading), can you recommend a way to separate A. citra and A. picta? The MPG plate would sort of suggest that A. citra has more of a gray-on-yellow coloration than the gray-on-white of A. picta, but Dave Wikle's pic there would seem to contradict that. Spaces between the spots also look inconsistent to me. If someone could provide a reference for the paper that separated out A. citra from A. picta that might also help.
… Ken-ichi Ueda, 12 October, 2014 - 1:23pm login or register to post comments

 
A. citra and picta differences
I don't know how accurate it is but I found that Ottolengui 1896 provides some detailed description of differences, however to add some confusion it appears that A. maia is considered a subspecies of A. picta as per Schmidt and Opler 2008(1).
… coreyk, 7 February, 2015 - 10:19pm login or register to post comments

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