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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Phosphilini » Phosphila » Phosphila fernae - Hodges#9624 (Phosphila fernae)
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#9624 - Phosphila fernae? - Phosphila fernae
Copyright © 2018 Hal Livings

#9624 - Phosphila fernae? - Phosphila fernae
20 miles southwest of Llano, Llano County, Texas, USA
July 20, 2018
Size: FW~12mm
Compare to from nearby Campwood, TX
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Contributed by Hal Livings on 20 July, 2018 - 12:57pm
Last updated 20 July, 2018 - 4:21pm

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Hal,

I moved the photo you refered to here to miselioides after my BOLD results came back. I think I have now figured out how to separate them. So far the three I have dissected all had fairly dark beige hindwings. I am also going to send the ones I dissected to BOLD for confirmation.
… A. Hendrickson, 13 November, 2019 - 7:56am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Ann. I see on BugGuid
Thanks Ann. I see on BugGuide that my image is now the only Texas sighting for P. fern. So it probably isn't really a P. fernae. Will you move mine?

Hal
… Hal Livings, 15 November, 2019 - 9:19am login or register to post comments

 
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Hal,

This one was placed by Maury Heiman who is certainly a senior editor to myself. If mine barcode successfully, I am pretty sure that Steve Nanz will agree that these species can only be separated by DNA or dissection. If so, I will move yours.
… A. Hendrickson, 16 November, 2019 - 8:06am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Ann.
Thanks Ann.
… Hal Livings, 16 November, 2019 - 5:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Maury J. Heiman, 20 July, 2018 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

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