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Photo#1614237
genitalia - Olethreutes clavana - female

genitalia - Olethreutes clavana - Female
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 13, 2016
moth genitalia
moth collected by Tom Murray and identified as O. mysteriana
female genitalia are better match to O. clavana, species #51 in Gilligan et al.2008

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genitalia - Olethreutes clavana - female genitalia - Olethreutes clavana - female

or nigrana?
The lobes seem to match nigrana figured by Gilligan et al. 2008 slightly better. But based on Miller 1979, I suspect that figures of both species in Gilligan et al. are of clavana. The lobes for nigrana are more elongated in Miller, a feature to which he calls attention.

Conversely, it looks like the make genitalia of clavana figured in Gilligan et al. match nigrana based on Miller.

Should we move the adults
to the clavana page?

 
Done!
Thanks for the reminder

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