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Rheumaptera hastata - Hodges#7293 - Rheumaptera hastata - male

Rheumaptera hastata - Hodges#7293 - Rheumaptera hastata - Male
Block Island, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
July 7, 2019
moth genitalia
everted vesica shows 3 cornuti, diagnostic for R. hastata
Moth is here:

nice
also note that the "sclerotized sacculus extending along the ventral edge of the valvula for about 2/3rds length" (McGuffin, 1973)
In subhastata "sclerotized sacculus extending partially around tip of valvula"

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