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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Larentiinae » Xanthorhoini » Disclisioprocta » Somber Carpet - Hodges#7417 (Disclisioprocta stellata)
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Moth that looks like a butterfly.........? - Disclisioprocta stellata
Copyright © 2015 Woodworker

Moth that looks like a butterfly.........? - Disclisioprocta stellata
Westminster, Orange County, California, USA
August 18, 2015
Size: approx 1" BL
Found this insect near the porch light at about 9PM. Took these photos, because it looked so unusual. I thought it was a butterfly acting like a moth. It was still on the porch the next morning with its wings held in the same position. I cropped the photos and noted the antennae are moth like. This is not any moth or butterfly that I'm familiar with. Help?

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Contributed by Woodworker on 20 August, 2015 - 12:28pm
Last updated 13 November, 2016 - 12:43am

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… Kyhl Austin, 13 November, 2016 - 12:43am login or register to post comments

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Woodworker, I would never have caught this but I just ID'd one that Skitterbug had suggested this species for. Look at and then look at the "rays" on the wings of this one that Skitterbug identified . Just another educated guess.
… A. Hendrickson, 9 February, 2016 - 6:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, I think it is Disclisioprocta stellata
I'm pretty sure that it is Disclisioprocta stellata but just don't have the certainty to move the image within BugGuide. I've been confident about a moth ID before..............and been fooled. In my own "virtual" insect collection, I have it identified as such. Thanks
… Woodworker, 9 February, 2016 - 8:44pm login or register to post comments

 
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I think that is the appropriate way to handle it. It certainly is not a "cold cocked" ID, and was not intended as such.
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