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Snow's Owlet - Isogona snowi

Snow's Owlet - Isogona snowi
Pharr, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
December 30, 2007
Size: wing about 10 mm
came to light; I thought it would be relatively easy to find a match for this one, given the bulge along the inner margin of the forewing, but no luck yet...

guessing subfamily Calpinae/Ophiderinae

Update: see comments below

Images of this individual: tag all
Snow's Owlet - Isogona snowi Snow's Owlet - Isogona snowi

Isogona snowi
Thanks to Ed Knudson for identifying this species in email message via Bob Patterson. Moved from Erebidae to new species page.

a vagrant?
The closest thing so far has been this one from Pierre Zagatti's French Antilles site. There's no Makapta species listed at All-Leps or nearctica.com.

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