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What type of Metalmark? - Calephelis rawsoni - female

What type of Metalmark? - Calephelis rawsoni - Female
San Antonio, Leon Creek Greenway, Bexar County, Texas, USA
July 22, 2006
Possibly a Fatal Metalmark (Calephelis nemesis)?

Moved
Moved from Calephelis.

Celephelis rawsoni
I've looked this thing up and down and all around, and it looks like this species to me. I'm no Celephelis expert, but it doesn't look like C. perditalis to me, and it certainly isn't C. nemesis. However, I can find nothing about it that makes it not be C. rawsoni.

 
Calephelis rawsoni, seconded
Looking at it fresh, I'm sure David has it right. (Based on one image here, plus another in Butterflies through Binoculars The West.

Moved
Moved from Metalmarks.

Moved
Moved from Butterflies.

Just a guess - Rounded Metalmark
Basis: It's not Fatal and looks much like the post of yours I feel is Rounded.

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