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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Grotellinae » Grotella » Grotella sampita - Hodges#11215 (Grotella sampita)
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Arizona Moth - Grotella sampita
Copyright © 2021 Jim Eckert

Arizona Moth - Grotella sampita
Pinery Canyon Road - Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
August 22, 2016
On a sheet with a Bioquip UV black light.

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Contributed by Jim Eckert on 17 October, 2021 - 5:46am
Last updated 18 July, 2022 - 4:44pm

Moved
Moved from Homolagoa grotelliformis.
… Jim Eckert, 18 July, 2022 - 4:44pm login or register to post comments

Grotella sampita?
I think this is Grotella sampita with the terminal black dashes. You have a near-identical image with the same date under G. sampita: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1292431/bgpage
… Sue Carnahan, 18 July, 2022 - 3:17pm login or register to post comments

 
yikes, same specimen!
Sue - thanks for catching this, it is the same moth but the pose got reversed. I got ID right in 2016, but revisited and got it wrong 5 years later - getting older - but not better!
… Jim Eckert, 18 July, 2022 - 4:43pm login or register to post comments

 
you're welcome
You're welcome, but the plot thickens a bit in that Homolagoa *can* have black dots near the terminal fringe, apparently. Not seen on all individuals. I think the overall "humped" shape and perhaps the forelegs are important to separate them from Grotella. But I'm not an expert.
… Sue Carnahan, 20 July, 2022 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

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