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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Zale » Zale confusa - Hodges#8701 (Zale confusa)
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unknown 21 - Zale confusa
Copyright © 2015 Rosemary Seidler

unknown 21 - Zale confusa
Post Oak Rd, Homer, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, USA
June 30, 2015
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Contributed by Rosemary Seidler on 1 August, 2015 - 6:54pm
Last updated 4 August, 2015 - 8:52pm

Suggestion
The annual Zale guessing period has arrived again and I stumbled over this post that a comment from me had led you to call Zale confusa. You apparently have had doubts about this choice later, and so I thought I throw 8707 Zale metatoides into the mix.
Edit: Revisiting some of my Zales, Z. metatoides has now been suggested by Jason Roberts as a more likely ID for my confusa, and I think he may be right.
… Peter Homann, 7 April, 2018 - 4:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… Rosemary Seidler, 4 August, 2015 - 8:52pm login or register to post comments

Perhaps ..
I had an opportunity recently to deal with my Zale moths and learned quite a bit, but I am not an expert by a long shot. Anyway, your moth reminds me very much of my recent Zale confusa that I raised from a caterpillar.
… Peter Homann, 4 August, 2015 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Peter
looks good. Thanks.
… Rosemary Seidler, 4 August, 2015 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

 
8699
The more I look at other photos I think this is more likely

Hodges # 8699 - Oblique Zale Moth - Zale obliqua
… Rosemary Seidler, 24 September, 2015 - 11:02pm login or register to post comments

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