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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Stiriinae » Stiriini » Eulithosia » Eulithosia composita - Hodges#9773 (Eulithosia composita)
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Eulithosia composita? - Eulithosia composita
Copyright © 2017 Sue Carnahan

Eulithosia composita? - Eulithosia composita
Salero Ranch, E of Tubac, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
August 13, 2017
The best match I can make is Eulithosia composita.
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Contributed by Sue Carnahan on 15 August, 2017 - 6:49pm
Last updated 22 December, 2017 - 11:11pm

Looks good to me
From the specimens I've seen, composita has a variably colored fringe. There's one on BOLD with a paler fringe -- I think. It's a little hard to see: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_RecordView?processid=RDNMK171-11

We also have some in our collection with a pale fringe.

There is a complex of Chrysoecia thoracica in Mexico with some members that are reminiscent of E. composita. I thought maybe you had caught a vagrant one of those, but they are far less orange in overall color.
… Kevin Keegan, 9 August, 2019 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

 
E. composita
Thank you for taking a look, Kevin!
… Sue Carnahan, 9 August, 2019 - 3:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively, but the fringe color bothers me
Moved from Owlet Moths.
… Kyhl Austin, 22 December, 2017 - 11:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Fringe
Yes, I noticed that too but didn’t know if it could be variable.
… Sue Carnahan, 23 December, 2017 - 10:49am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… Kyhl Austin, 28 October, 2017 - 11:10pm login or register to post comments

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