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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Pantheinae » Colocasia » Closebanded Yellowhorn - Hodges#9185 (Colocasia propinquilinea)
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Unusual spotted tussock moth? - Colocasia propinquilinea
Copyright © 2021 Brent Guinn

Unusual spotted tussock moth? - Colocasia propinquilinea
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
July 7, 2021

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Unusual spotted tussock moth? - Colocasia propinquilinea Unusual spotted tussock moth? - Colocasia propinquilinea
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Contributed by Brent Guinn on 3 November, 2021 - 9:04pm
Last updated 28 November, 2021 - 3:12pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Brent Guinn, 28 November, 2021 - 3:12pm login or register to post comments

Yes,
certainly keys to propinquilinea. Part of the difficulty is whether they are describing the final instar and whether that description fits earlier instars or not. We don't know enough to answer that, but think it is safe to move this to propinquilinea
… john and jane balaban, 20 November, 2021 - 9:58pm login or register to post comments

 
OK I'll move it there. Thanks
OK I'll move it there. Thanks.
… Brent Guinn, 28 November, 2021 - 3:11pm login or register to post comments

Wonder if it isn't
a Colocasia?
… john and jane balaban, 4 November, 2021 - 2:42pm login or register to post comments

 
S. E. Crumb key
From: S. E. Crumb. The larvae of the Phalaenidae. This is the key from this paper that identifies Colocasia. Does this key describe what we are seeing? Not familiar with the larvae anatomy.

"Black hair pencils present on setigerous tubercle ( chalaza ) II on mesothorax and transverse middorsal tufts of red or black hair present on setigerous tubercle ( chalaza ) I on abdominal segments 1 and 8. Skin pavement granulose . Two apical setae on tarsus broad , spatulate . Of northern distribution . Colocasia"

Key to the two species:
"Head not black . Dorsum of body white or pale- propinquilinea [mine does not have the black head, so if Colacasia then likely this one?]
Head and body black .. flavicornis
It may be that propinquilinea and flavicornis are but color phases of one species as is found in Panthea ."
… Brent Guinn, 20 November, 2021 - 7:41pm login or register to post comments

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