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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Boletobiini » Metalectra » Common Fungus Moth - Hodges#8499 (Metalectra discalis)
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Common Fungus Moth - Metalectra discalis
Copyright © 2016 JHousePhotos

Common Fungus Moth - Metalectra discalis
Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas, USA
July 23, 2016
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Contributed by JHousePhotos on 23 July, 2016 - 10:19pm
Last updated 26 July, 2016 - 1:29pm

Moved
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Common Fungus Moth
8499 Metalectra discalis. On some of them the light flash produces the blue iridescence like on yours and here .
… Peter Homann, 24 July, 2016 - 12:59pm login or register to post comments

 
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Thanks!
… JHousePhotos, 24 July, 2016 - 1:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Move it!
It's the first BugGuide image record for Arkansas.
… Peter Homann, 24 July, 2016 - 3:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Neat!
But, I have no idea how to move things.
… JHousePhotos, 25 July, 2016 - 12:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Here is how
Click "tag". Then open the species page here and click "Images". On the new page click "move tagged images". (It's all described on this page).
Good luck. Only the author or an editor can do this.
… Peter Homann, 25 July, 2016 - 2:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Simple enough.
Many thanks!
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