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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Euclidiini » Caenurgina » Forage Looper - Hodges#8739 (Caenurgina erechtea)
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Caenurgina erechtea
Copyright © 2018 Dave Barker

Caenurgina erechtea
29.797499, -100.998049, Val Verde County, Texas, USA
November 8, 2018
Or is it an unusual Melipotis perpendicularis?
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Contributed by Dave Barker on 2 December, 2018 - 11:05pm
Last updated 11 December, 2018 - 3:38pm

Caenurgina
did you happen to collect this one? If so and it's a male, you can brush the scales off the terminal end of the abdomen. A mitten-shaped valvae is crassiuscula. In erechtea, you'll see 2 or more schlerotized, sickle-shaped projections.
I just curated most of the Cornell collection of C. erechtea and crassiuscula, yours is textbook erechtea - the dark AM area does not touch the inner margin of the FW.
… JoAnneRusso, 11 December, 2018 - 3:41pm login or register to post comments

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