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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) » Leucaniini
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Noctuidae Cat
Copyright © 2018 Nancy Kent

Noctuidae Cat
Wildwood Park; Radford, Virginia, USA
September 6, 2018
I need an ID, please.

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Contributed by Nancy Kent on 6 September, 2018 - 6:30pm
Last updated 8 September, 2018 - 9:59am

Moved
The side of the face looks much more like the Leucania pictured on page 506 of Owlets, so if we were to choose, we would choose Leucania, but... :(
… john and jane balaban, 8 September, 2018 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Again, I appreciate all your help. And this is close enough for my records:)
… Nancy Kent, 8 September, 2018 - 9:40am login or register to post comments

We tried,
but we can't see how to tell Mythimna oxygala pg 508 from Leucania ursula pg 509. Not sure what we saw before when we moved images to Leucania, but we're not seeing it now. Maybe it's too late in the day :)
… john and jane balaban, 7 September, 2018 - 11:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I did find in the Guide a cat that looked very similar to this one that you guys had ID,d in 2013 as Mythimna unipuncta and it is Photo#845766. Sorry, I've never learned to do a thumbnail in BG ):
I do appreciate your searching and realize that sometimes Nature's mysteries remain just that!
… Nancy Kent, 8 September, 2018 - 6:39am login or register to post comments

Not Geometridae - too many pair of abdominal prolegs
This would be a Noctuid such as Mythimna or Leucania. Will try to track it down
… john and jane balaban, 6 September, 2018 - 7:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, J and J!
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… Nancy Kent, 6 September, 2018 - 9:31pm login or register to post comments

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