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Photo#118617
ID Please - Synanthedon acerni

ID Please - Synanthedon acerni
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
June 16, 2007
Moth?
Kept abdomen(red fan)going up and down.

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Moved
Moved from Synanthedon.

Synanthedon
Relations are all beautiful. This must be one. I think they bug they hell out of Bob in that they are tough to categorize to species sometimes.

 
I thought
that Synanthedon acerni was the only one with the reddish tail fan. But then again my eyes may have decieved me.

 
Synanthedon identification
Steve - you are correct; this is a lovely specimen of a female Synanthedon acerni. Synanthedon corni and acerrubri also have red tails.

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