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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Ourapterygini » Neoterpes
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Cream Colored Moth, brown horizontal stripe and few brown specks. In open grasslands/woodlands. - Neoterpes
Copyright © 2008 Flo Hendry

Cream Colored Moth, brown horizontal stripe and few brown specks. In open grasslands/woodlands. - Neoterpes
Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California, USA
April 16, 2008
Size: ~1 " as I recall
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Contributed by Flo Hendry on 27 April, 2008 - 3:16pm
Last updated 15 December, 2016 - 2:08pm

Moved
Moved from Geometrid Moths.
… Steve Nanz, 15 December, 2016 - 2:08pm login or register to post comments

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I suggest you look at or something in that Genus. Not from your area, so not an ID.
… A. Hendrickson, 14 December, 2016 - 5:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Much better
And it's not out of range. Not sure how Neoterpes edwardsata is eliminated, though. Hulst (1886) in his description of ephelidaria speculated that this might be a form of edwardsata. BOLD has the two in the same BIN group but that could be the result of identification error.
… Steve Nanz, 15 December, 2016 - 2:12pm login or register to post comments

 
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I did not feel certain of the exact species either.
… A. Hendrickson, 15 December, 2016 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… Steve Nanz, 14 January, 2010 - 3:34am login or register to post comments

Cream colored moth identified
Identified as a Confused Eusarca Moth - Eusarca confusaria from GaryWK at pbase.
flo
… Flo Hendry, 27 April, 2008 - 8:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Not So sure
The PM line does not hook or fade near the apex. I can't find any examples of E. confusaria on MPG or lepbarcoding.org which match this image.

Then again bugs don't really care about what MPG or lepbarcoding.org think.
… Steve Nanz, 14 January, 2010 - 3:44am login or register to post comments

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