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Faronta terrapictalis - Dargida diffusa
Copyright © 2007 John Davis

Faronta terrapictalis - Dargida diffusa
Stevenson, Skamania County, Washington, USA
May 14, 2007
Attracted to lights. Mona 10432. County record. Need new species page.
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Contributed by John Davis on 19 May, 2007 - 1:32pm
Last updated 9 February, 2017 - 5:09pm

Moved
Moved from Dargida terrapictalis.

Synonymy in Lafontaine & Schmidt (2015), "932928 Dargida diffusa – Lack of consistent genital differences, identical barcodes with those of D. diffusa from various parts of Canada and the United States, and intermediate forms in Idaho and western Montana, result in us treating D. terrapictalis (Buckett, 1969), syn. n., as conspecific with D. diffusa. Dargida terrapictalis is a dark form of the species that occurs from southern British Columbia to central California and could be treated as a subspecies if desired." (1)
… Steve Nanz, 9 February, 2017 - 5:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Faronta.
… John Davis, 6 September, 2007 - 5:55pm login or register to post comments

I initially thought this looked distinct
but now I don't see much difference between this specimen and the Faronta diffusa photo by Janice Stiefel from Wisconsin (where terrapictalis doesn't occur) or some of the diffusa shown at All-Leps (and particularly this one, which looks virtually identical to the photo of terrapictalis at CBIF).

There's 4 subspecies of F. diffusa listed at All-Leps, so I imagine there's a fair amount of variability among them.
… Robin McLeod, 10 June, 2007 - 1:16pm login or register to post comments

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