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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae)
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Is this some kind of Prominent?
Copyright © 2019 Earl Orf

Is this some kind of Prominent?
Dunning Lake, Itasca County, Minnesota, USA
August 2, 2019
Need some help with this one.
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Contributed by Earl Orf on 15 August, 2019 - 12:50pm
Last updated 24 September, 2019 - 10:43am

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… Aaron Hunt, 24 September, 2019 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

Oligocentria, maybe semirufes
Oligocentria, maybe semirufescens (I think).
… jim sogaard, 15 August, 2019 - 2:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks.
Thanks, Jim. I submitted this one https://bugguide.net/node/view/1687377 a few days ago. Would that also be a Red-washed Prominent or would it more likely be a White-streaked Prominent?
… Earl Orf, 16 August, 2019 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

 
Earl, Looking again, it does
Earl, Looking again, it does seem White-streaked is a better match.
… jim sogaard, 16 August, 2019 - 11:49am login or register to post comments

 
Do you mean this one or the o
Do you mean this one or the one from the other day?
… Earl Orf, 16 August, 2019 - 11:51am login or register to post comments

 
Caught me asleep there! I was
Caught me asleep there! I was talking about this one. I just looked at the other and it has a nice white patch at the anal angle (good for semirufescens) but seems to lack the dark reniform mark. So I'm not sure which Oligocentria it is.
… jim sogaard, 16 August, 2019 - 12:04pm login or register to post comments

 
I meant to say white patch at
I meant to say white patch at the apex. See also my comment there, wondering if that image, not this, might be a Schizura.
… jim sogaard, 16 August, 2019 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, I'll wait to see if s
Thanks, I'll wait to see if someone else weighs in on the other one.
… Earl Orf, 16 August, 2019 - 12:07pm login or register to post comments

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