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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 » Macariini » Macaria » Granite Moth - Hodges#6352 (Macaria granitata)
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Geometrid moth - Macaria granitata - female
Copyright © 2015 stan gilliam

Geometrid moth - Macaria granitata - Female
Oak Ridge, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
April 10, 2015
Size: ~35mm wingspan
Note brown spots.

Porch light visitor.
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Contributed by stan gilliam on 11 April, 2015 - 7:49am
Last updated 11 April, 2015 - 10:56am

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Moved from ID Request.

Thanks Josiah.
… A. Hendrickson, 11 April, 2015 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks.
A new one for me.
… stan gilliam, 11 April, 2015 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

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Genus Macaria for sure. I suggest . I like the picture of Bob Patterson's specimen here http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=6352 better for a comparison to your moth. Not all of them have that very dark patch near the costa on the PM line.
… A. Hendrickson, 11 April, 2015 - 10:23am login or register to post comments

 
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I agree. It looks like Macaria granitata to me.
… Josiah Gilbert, 11 April, 2015 - 10:38am login or register to post comments

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