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Diaphania Moth - Hodges#5205 (Diaphania modialis)
Photo#1455278
Copyright © 2017
Bob Cross
Diaphania modialis
Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA
October 15, 2017
Size: about 20 mm WS
Porch light visitor at dawn. Can these be reliably sexed?
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Contributed by
Bob Cross
on 15 October, 2017 - 2:31pm
Last updated 23 October, 2017 - 1:20pm
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Robert Lord Zimlich
, 23 October, 2017 - 1:20pm
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Subjective call
Bob, the female has bushy pencils, while the male's is rather skimpy. The extremes are easy to determine, but the "in-betweens" not so, and best not try.
This
one
would be a female, and this
pne
, a male.
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Robert Lord Zimlich
, 23 October, 2017 - 1:19pm
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Diaphania modialis
Thank you Robert. That's really very helpful information that I couldn't find anywhere else. I can now see that my specimen is an "in between".
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, 23 October, 2017 - 2:09pm
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