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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Catocalini » Underwings (Catocala) » The Little Wife Underwing - Hodges#8774 (Catocala muliercula)
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Underwing Moth - Catocala muliercula
Copyright © 2005 Steve Collins

Underwing Moth - Catocala muliercula
Three Lakes WMA, Osceola County, Florida, USA
May 11, 2005
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Contributed by Steve Collins on 27 June, 2005 - 12:20pm
Last updated 17 May, 2013 - 8:18am

Catocala muliercula (8774)
This moth is Catocala muliercula. The blue refection of some of the scales on the forewings is typical of "muliercula". The problem is when you are at a baited tree with four or five adult "muliercula" moths feeding on the sugar bait and you want to collect that one Catocala delilah (8835) sitting in the middle of them. If one moth flys, all will fly, and that's the game.
… richardgillmore, 26 November, 2005 - 8:25pm login or register to post comments

8774 - The Little Wife Underwing - Catocala muliercula
.... with some reservation, but I think the warm brown "shoulder" area and the precise matching of lines with good examples (Covell, for example) make it this species.
… Bob Patterson, 27 June, 2005 - 11:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Little Wife
The plate in Covell shows a female, whose forewing is much lighter than the forewing of a male shown in Holland's Moth Book. Comparing both of those to this specimen, it seems that color may vary quite a bit, though still maintain the chocolate brown you both described.
… Steve Collins, 30 June, 2005 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Catocala
I'll back you on that Bob. Sometimes I'm too dependent on the hindwings to be sure, but I have a series of these collected in Florida as well. It's one of the few Catocala that shows that rich chocolate color in the wings. Good call.
… Dennis Profant, 28 June, 2005 - 12:23am login or register to post comments

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