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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Spilomelinae » Agroterini » Patania » Herbivorous Pleuroptya Moth - Hodges#5243 (Patania silicalis)
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Medium-brown spread-winged crambid - Patania silicalis
Copyright © 2018 Timothy Reichard

Medium-brown spread-winged crambid - Patania silicalis
Odenton, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
November 2, 2017
Herpetogramma theseusalis or Pleuroptya silicalis?
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Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 14 January, 2018 - 6:01pm
Last updated 30 March, 2019 - 11:16pm

Moved, Pleuroptya silicalis
Moved from Spilomelinae.
… Aaron Hunt, 30 March, 2019 - 11:16pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… Aaron Hunt, 27 February, 2018 - 11:35am login or register to post comments

Let me try
The PM line of H. theseusalis is straight at the costa, and that species has a quite prominent subterminal line by my judgment. Your moth lacks both features. P. silicalis, on the other hand, appears to me to be a rather good match.
… Peter Homann, 17 January, 2018 - 10:26am login or register to post comments

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