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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Heteranassa » Heteranassa mima - Hodges#8659 (Heteranassa mima)
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Heteranassa fraterna or mima? - Heteranassa mima
Copyright © 2016 Sue Carnahan

Heteranassa fraterna or mima? - Heteranassa mima
Salero Ranch, 4300 ft elev, 8 mi E of Tubac, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
August 9, 2016
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Contributed by Sue Carnahan on 12 August, 2016 - 5:38pm
Last updated 22 September, 2016 - 11:29am

Moved
Moved from Heteranassa.

Now only one species in genus. Heteranassa fraterna was synonymized with H. mima by Homziak et al. (2015)
… Steve Nanz, 22 September, 2016 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Erebidae.
… Jason D. Roberts, 21 August, 2016 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… Kyhl Austin, 15 August, 2016 - 4:06pm login or register to post comments

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These are very difficult and my experience is only with H. mima, but looking at this photo ID'd by Maury Heiman I think yours looks a lot like this one. My guess is that H. mima has more color as a general rule and is definitely more common. Also note the lighter hindwing.

I copied and lightened this photo which I thought was the most like your specimen among the H. fraterna pictures on BG and it did not have any of the yellow in the ST area.
… A. Hendrickson, 13 August, 2016 - 11:26am login or register to post comments

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