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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Phalerinae » Datana » Contracted Datana - Hodges#7906 (Datana contracta)
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Datana contracta? - Datana contracta - male
Copyright © 2020 jim sogaard

Datana contracta? - Datana contracta - Male
Pine Brook, Isanti County, Minnesota, USA
June 21, 2003
Size: WS (pinned) ~ 43 mm.
I suspect this is Datana contracta but am not sure. Any help much appreciated.

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Contributed by jim sogaard on 24 January, 2020 - 1:08pm
Last updated 25 January, 2020 - 7:16am

Moved
Moved from Datana.
… jim sogaard, 25 January, 2020 - 7:16am login or register to post comments

I Agree
Looks like a slightly darker version of most any of the 999 Datana contracta moths I have reared over the years. In your area I think the only other possibility is Datana perspicua which in my far too limited experience is a more uniform and paler ground color.
… George Smiley, 24 January, 2020 - 1:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks George
I appreciate your input. I'll give it a bit more rumination time all the same. These guys are tough! (I see now too that the head and front of the thorax is, as Forbes said 'markedly pale'.)
… jim sogaard, 24 January, 2020 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

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