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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Oncocnemidinae » Sympistis » Sympistis atricollaris - Hodges#10128 (Sympistis atricollaris)
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Sympisits cottami? - Sympistis atricollaris
Copyright © 2017 Hal Livings

Sympisits cottami? - Sympistis atricollaris
20 miles southwest of Llano, Llano County, Texas, USA
March 1, 2017
Size: FW=12mm
Second of 2 images for this moth

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Sympisits cottami? - Sympistis atricollaris Sympisits cottami? - Sympistis atricollaris
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Contributed by Hal Livings on 2 March, 2017 - 6:33pm
Last updated 28 December, 2022 - 11:55am

Moved
Moved from Sympistis cottami. Chuck Sexton was spot on with his ID of this as atricollaris.
… Steve Morris, 28 December, 2022 - 11:55am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sympistis.
… Maury J. Heiman, 6 June, 2018 - 6:25pm login or register to post comments

 
S. atricollaris
I reviewed Blanchard's original description for S. cottami and updated the BG account.
The present moth is likely to be S. atricollaris. Blanchard distinguished cottami--known at the time only from the Chisos Mountains--by its lack of any hint of the thin black crossband between the two dark fascia on the FWs and the lack of a small white dot in the latter streaks where the reniform spot would be.
… Chuck Sexton, 31 July, 2018 - 1:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Distinguishing from S. atricollaris?
So Hal also photographed something very similar in Aug 2017 at the same location which is currently placed as S. atricollaris:

How are atricollaris and cottami distinguished?
… Chuck Sexton, 31 July, 2018 - 12:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Maury - Thanks for clearing t
Maury - Thanks for clearing this one up. It's been out there in a "probable" state a long time
Hal
… Hal Livings, 6 June, 2018 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

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… A. Hendrickson, 13 March, 2017 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

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