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Antaeotricha leucillana? - Antaeotricha

Antaeotricha leucillana? - Antaeotricha
Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA
March 23, 2017

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Antaeotricha leucillana? - Antaeotricha Antaeotricha leucillana? - Antaeotricha

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Maps on bugguide

 
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I use these maps as a guide, but not to verify a species choice.

Here is the link to the forum to which I referred:
here

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I agree with your Genus, but leucillana and schlaegeri are difficult to tell apart and the difference is mainly in the size which is seldom well measured. I believe the consensus is that we are no longer placing to species between these two.

 
Why was there a difference in the first place?

 
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There are two described species. Within a Genus some species may be very difficult to separate to species with only a photograph and this is one of those cases. In many Genuses the species have to be separated by DNA or dissection.

 

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