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Plataea californiaria in Rindge 1976 - Plataea californiaria - male
Copyright © 2017 David J. Ferguson

Plataea californiaria in Rindge 1976 - Plataea californiaria - Male
"Middle California", California, USA
Due to the nature of these two photos, I am going to leave them linked here, even though they represent two specimens.

This is a specimen labelled as Gorytodes californiaria from "Middle California". Specimen resides at American Museum of Natural History.

Original photo appears as figure 24 in 'A Revision of the Moth Genus Plataea(Lepidoptera, Geometridae)' Frederick H. Rindge, June 2, 1976, in American Museum Novitates 2595

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Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 26 April, 2017 - 11:28am

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