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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Larentiinae » Hydriomenini » Perizoma » Perizoma epictata - Hodges#7326 (Perizoma epictata)
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Small Moth - Perizoma epictata
Copyright © 2008 Elliotte Rusty Harold

Small Moth - Perizoma epictata
Santiago Oaks Regional Park, Orange County, California, USA
April 6, 2008
Size: ~1cm
A couple of these, this one on the wall, another on the ceiling
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Contributed by Elliotte Rusty Harold on 6 April, 2008 - 4:00pm
Last updated 6 January, 2018 - 3:17pm

Moved
Moved from Larentiinae.
… Bob Biagi, 6 January, 2018 - 3:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Larentiinae.
… Jason D. Roberts, 4 September, 2011 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Geometrid Moths.
… Jason D. Roberts, 4 September, 2011 - 8:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… Steve Nanz, 23 January, 2010 - 2:00pm login or register to post comments

Yes, it is quite likely that I goofed with this one.
I was moving moths wholesale out of the I.D. request section into their family, and I didn't look closely enough at this one. I think you are on the right track, and suspect you likely even have at least the right genus. I don't know Geometrids very well, so I can't verify if the species is correct. A quick check on the name didn't give me much information, but it appears to be a northern species, so I don't know if it is in Orange County or not. Here is a page where there are photos of a number of similar species:
Moth Photographer's Group.
… David J. Ferguson, 19 January, 2010 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

try family Erebidae
perhaps subfamily Catocalinae.
… David J. Ferguson, 3 August, 2009 - 5:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Geometrid?
Is it possible this is something in Geometridae? I checked Erebidae without much luck but did stumble upon examples in Geometridae here that looked similar.
… Steve Nanz, 17 January, 2010 - 3:35pm login or register to post comments

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