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Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045 (Marimatha tripuncta)
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JoAnneRusso
Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045 -
Marimatha tripuncta
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Pena Blanca; White Rock Campground, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
August 18, 2022
moth genitalia
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Contributed by
JoAnneRusso
on 19 November, 2022 - 4:01pm
piscimala?
I am sure you compared this with images of genitalia showing in Ferris & Lafontaine (2010) and found it to most closely resemble Figure 21 for
tripuncta
. However, Figure 22 for
piscimala
looks very similar, but with a slightly different orientation. Is there any chance that this could actually be
piscimala
? According to the 2010 review,
tripuncta
is limited to south Florida and the Carribean.
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Steve Morris
, 13 December, 2023 - 10:11am
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I sent the all the informatio
I sent the all the information about location etc along with images to Cliff Ferris, and his comment was "I agree with you that the genitalia do look like tripuncta."
Maybe since there's been range expansion?? not sure.
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JoAnneRusso
, 13 December, 2023 - 10:27am
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Thanks JoAnne!
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Steve Morris
, 13 December, 2023 - 10:36am
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I sent the images again to Cl
I sent the images again to Cliff and here’s his comment- “ After carefully examining your photo and the CNC photos, the moth certainly looks like M. tripuncta. With climate change, moths are showing up in odd places, and outside of their former ranges.”
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JoAnneRusso
, 18 December, 2023 - 4:13pm
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Thanks!
Greatly appreciate you and Cliff taking another look at this!
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Steve Morris
, 26 December, 2023 - 4:31pm
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