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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Chloridea » Tobacco Budworm Moth - Hodges#11071 (Chloridea virescens)
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Please help us to identify this moth. - Chloridea virescens
Copyright © 2015 Andrew Kahl

Please help us to identify this moth. - Chloridea virescens
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
June 6, 2013
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Contributed by Andrew Kahl on 18 November, 2015 - 10:51pm
Last updated 20 November, 2015 - 1:18pm

Moved to Tobacco Budworm Moth
Moved from ID Request.

Adds June for Texas on BG
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 20 November, 2015 - 1:18pm login or register to post comments

Looks like ...
Tobacco Budworm Moth (Heliothis virescens). The foreshortening does not preclude H. subflexa, but the AM does seems high enough.
Z
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 19 November, 2015 - 3:34am login or register to post comments

 
Heliothis virescens
Thank you, Robert.

May I add that the second species (H. subflexa) is conspicuously absent in Texas. (See the distribution map of the Moth Photographers Group.)
Cheers -

Andrew
… Andrew Kahl, 20 November, 2015 - 2:28am login or register to post comments

 
If they have wings ...
all bets are off 😊
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 20 November, 2015 - 5:51am login or register to post comments

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