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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Acentropinae » Nymphulini » Langessa » Black Langessa Moth  - Hodges#4758  (Langessa nomophilalis)
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Florida moth - Langessa nomophilalis
Copyright © 2019 David E. Reed

Florida moth - Langessa nomophilalis
Collier-Seminole State Park, Naples, Collier County, Florida, USA
March 3, 2015
Can't find a match.
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Contributed by David E. Reed on 7 April, 2019 - 11:10am
Last updated 8 April, 2019 - 9:36pm

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… Bob Biagi, 8 April, 2019 - 9:36pm login or register to post comments

Black Langessa Moth
The other images don't show the pattern as well as your's, probably because they are females. Some of the BOLD specimens look very close to this. Carol Wolf has one on MPG that is good match.
This pattern is similar to some of the Oligostigmoides sp.
… Bob Biagi, 8 April, 2019 - 9:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Black Langessa
Thank you greatly. I never would have found this.
… David E. Reed, 8 April, 2019 - 11:01pm login or register to post comments

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