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Photo#1620474
genitalia - Aethes argentilimitana - female

genitalia - Aethes argentilimitana - Female
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 17, 2016
moth genitalia
moth collected by Tom Murray [IMG_7578]

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Moved from Rings' Aethes Moth.
Hugh, thanks for your id of this moth.

Aethes argentilimitana
This is A. argentilimitana by the three gold bands on the FW. In addition the genitalia are inconsistent with ringsi and highly consistent with argentilimitana. To wit: the antrum is funnel shaped and then appearing twisted anteriad; ductus bursae appears as a rounded sclerotized structure left of the antrum in the ventral view; corpus bursae elongate.

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