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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 » Xanthorhoe » Red Twin-Spot - Hodges#7388 (Xanthorhoe ferrugata)
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Moth - Xanthorhoe ferrugata - female
Copyright © 2016 Danièle Ulrich

Moth - Xanthorhoe ferrugata - Female
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada
June 11, 2016
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Contributed by Danièle Ulrich on 25 December, 2016 - 9:58am
Last updated 16 December, 2020 - 5:54pm

Moved
Moved from Geometrid Moths.
… Bob Biagi, 16 December, 2020 - 5:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thnaks for the ID. Indeed, I
Thnaks for the ID. Indeed, I often photograph this species, but rarely the underside of the wings.
… Alain Hogue, 17 December, 2020 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

Female
I think that it must be a Red Twin-Spot, Xanthorhoe ferrugata. Usually, the prominent black spots don't bleed through to the bottom side of the fore-wings. This is a species that you have filmed before.
Females: Males:
… Bob Biagi, 16 December, 2020 - 5:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… A. Hendrickson, 10 February, 2017 - 11:41am login or register to post comments

I think this is a geometrid
I agree with Kyhl (and, I should have added, Ann): I would not expect Metalectra to rest with wings folded like this one does.
… Peter Homann, 29 December, 2016 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

Any pictures with the wings spread?
Without one it might be difficult to identify this beyond family or maybe subfamily (I'm leaning Larentiinae).
… Kyhl Austin, 26 December, 2016 - 5:52pm login or register to post comments

 
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Kyle, see my comment on the other picture. I have some spread at the ranch and will check the ventral markings in a week or so.
… A. Hendrickson, 26 December, 2016 - 10:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Daniele took this photo of Me
Daniele took this photo of Metalectra quadrisignata at the same place, just 90 sec. before. Could it be the same species with closed wings ?
… Alain Hogue, 26 December, 2016 - 6:39pm login or register to post comments

 
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Alain, why have you not followed instructions and "unlinked" as suggested by Kyhl or deleted and resubmitted as I requested on the first photograph?
… A. Hendrickson, 29 December, 2016 - 6:44pm login or register to post comments

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