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#8060 - Cisthene unifascia? - Cisthene tenuifascia
Copyright © 2019 Hal Livings

#8060 - Cisthene unifascia? - Cisthene tenuifascia
20 miles southwest of Llano, Llano County, Texas, USA
April 4, 2019
Size: FW~9mm

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#8060 - Cisthene unifascia? - Cisthene tenuifascia #8060 - Cisthene unifascia? - Cisthene tenuifascia
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Contributed by Hal Livings on 12 April, 2019 - 4:19am
Last updated 13 April, 2019 - 9:44pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bob Biagi, 13 April, 2019 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Bob. I was thinking t
Thanks Bob. I was thinking that this was C. unifascia because the dark areas on the forewing are connected. How do you make the distinction between C. unifascia and C. tenuifascia?
… Hal Livings, 14 April, 2019 - 8:50am login or register to post comments

 
Species ID
Chuck Sexton has done quite a bit of work updating the info pages and organizing images in this genus. If you check the info for these two species, you can see the difference. You can also check his Key to Texas sp., whenever you need to look one up, over there.
What is important is not that the the patches connect, but the shape of the PM line or the shape of the apex of the basel patch. Also, I noticed that unifascia usually has banded legs.
… Bob Biagi, 14 April, 2019 - 9:25am login or register to post comments

 
Excellent. Thanks for the det
Excellent. Thanks for the details Bob
… Hal Livings, 14 April, 2019 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

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