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MothBrownTBID01202015BG_3212.jpg - Oxydia vesulia
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MothBrownTBID01202015BG_3212.jpg - Oxydia vesulia
Yamato Scrub Preserve, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
January 20, 2015
ID help please. Found resting in a road underpass.
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Contributed by Rich on 23 January, 2015 - 8:45am
Last updated 30 January, 2015 - 7:52am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 30 January, 2015 - 7:52am login or register to post comments

MothBrownTBID01202015BG_3212.jpg
How about 8585.3 – Epidromia rotundata?
… Doris Cohrs, 24 January, 2015 - 7:09pm login or register to post comments

 
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Doris, I that is a thoughtful suggestion, but I don't think you have takien into consideration the dark spot on the HW which I think is diagnostic.
… A. Hendrickson, 24 January, 2015 - 8:39pm login or register to post comments

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Pretty moth. This looks like another possibility to me.
… A. Hendrickson, 24 January, 2015 - 6:58am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
I think you've got it.
… Rich, 24 January, 2015 - 1:31pm login or register to post comments

check out Metallata absumens
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… metrioptera, 23 January, 2015 - 10:12am login or register to post comments

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