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Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045 - Marimatha tripuncta - female

Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045 - Marimatha tripuncta - Female
Pena Blanca; White Rock Campground, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
August 18, 2022
moth genitalia

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Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045 - Marimatha tripuncta - female Marimatha tripuncta - Hodges#9045 - Marimatha tripuncta - female

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.

 
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.

 
Thanks JoAnne!
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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.”

 
Thanks!
Greatly appreciate you and Cliff taking another look at this!

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