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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Nystaleinae » Symmerista
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Symmerista albifrons - Symmerista - male
Copyright © 2017 Dave Barker

Symmerista albifrons - Symmerista - Male
29.797499, -100.998049, Val Verde County, Texas, USA
October 1, 2017

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Contributed by Dave Barker on 18 November, 2017 - 8:31pm
Last updated 3 April, 2022 - 12:42pm

Moved
Moved from White-headed Prominent.
… A. Hendrickson, 3 April, 2022 - 12:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Dave Barker, 18 November, 2017 - 10:28pm login or register to post comments

One of the Symmerista?
… john and jane balaban, 18 November, 2017 - 8:53pm login or register to post comments

 
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John and Jane,

I think this is the one you asked me to comment on. I think it is misidentified.

This is the only one identified from far West Texas and Dave Wagner's new book says the range of S. albifrons is further East in Texas.

Further, I believe that only dissection or DNA can distinguish my new Symmerista solistella species, so I cannot place it there.

I have ONLY seen it in October, so that would make me think that S. solistella is a possibility that we cannot confirm.
… A. Hendrickson, 3 April, 2022 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Yup!
And in this part of Texas, this is Symmerista albifrons. I never saw one before. Thanks you very much for the ID.
… Dave Barker, 18 November, 2017 - 10:37pm login or register to post comments

 
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Dave,
Where did you get this identification? I have now sent three to BOLD for testing and they have all been identified as the same species (not S. albifrons), but Dave Wagner is still not sure about the ID. I had one tested as S. albifrons from Schulenburg, but he doubted that ID of mine prior to this recent testing. Apparently this Genus does not test very true.
… A. Hendrickson, 23 December, 2017 - 7:51am login or register to post comments

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