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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Hypenodinae » Dyspyralis » Dyspyralis ocala - Hodges#8429.1 (Dyspyralis ocala)
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Dyspyralis nigellus? - Dyspyralis ocala
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Dyspyralis nigellus? - Dyspyralis ocala
Ocala National Forest, Lake County, Florida, USA
December 9, 2021
Size: ~5 mm FW
Found at Alexander Springs Campground. Awfully small for D. nigellus, but seems to fit that species otherwise.

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Dyspyralis nigellus? - Dyspyralis ocala Dyspyralis nigellus? - Dyspyralis ocala
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Contributed by Steve Morris on 4 January, 2022 - 7:16am
Last updated 28 January, 2022 - 9:26pm

Moved
Moved from Dyspyralis.
… Bob Biagi, 17 January, 2022 - 11:23pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Steve Morris, 4 January, 2022 - 9:22pm login or register to post comments

Looks like...
You might want to contact RLZ and ask him about this one.
Dyspyralis: (maybe Dyspyralis undescribed - Florida to Texas)
… Bob Biagi, 4 January, 2022 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Dyspyralis ocala
Ran this one by Jim Vargo and he suggested Dyspyralis ocala. After review of Troubridge (2020) and considering the location where this one was found, I believe this is what we have here. According to BOLD there does appear to be another undescribed species that ranges in coastal areas from FL panhandle to TX. That is where the RLZ image above was found.
… Steve Morris, 17 January, 2022 - 3:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Troubridge agrees
Jim Troubridge also says ocala.
… Steve Morris, 17 January, 2022 - 4:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Nice detective work Bob!
The size on this moth was probably the biggest factor of why I did not place in D. nigellus. I was also concerned that this moth did not have a dark wide median band as mentioned in the description of nigellus and showing on most of the images on BG and MPG. The hindwings on this moth also seemed much darker the ones I could see on the few images of the nigellus with hindwings showing. I have now moved these to genus. Since we have a page for the undescribed species, do you think it would be OK to move them there?
… Steve Morris, 4 January, 2022 - 9:34pm login or register to post comments

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