Moved from Catabenoides vitrina.

I am wondering if all examples from TX to CA should be placed in Catabenoides terminellus.

There are two BIN groups at BOLD with specimens identified as C. vitrina, type locality Dominican Republic, and those are from Florida. BOLD specimens from Texas to California are identified as C. terminellus. I should add that there is more than one BIN for that as well.

C. terminellus was treated in Hampson (1909) as a synonym of C. vitrina. Poole (1996) (1) and Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) (2) listed terminellus, vitrina, and divisa as separate species. Lafontaine & Schmidt (2015) (3) in synonymizing C. divisa with C. vitrina mentions only Florida specimens. Also mentioned is a second undescribed species from FL. I am guessing that one of the two Florida BINS at BOLD refers to that undescribed species.

I could not find literature with examples of C. vitrina from TX to CA except for when terminellus was included as a synonym. I could not find any way to separate the two species from photos.

Edit: Also see comments by Jan Metlevski here suggesting that these may be terminellus but recommending that they be placed at the genus level.

Moved from Noctuoidea.

very common moth around our area of south central TX
Thanks

Moved from Moths.

Moved from Catabenoides.

Moved from Moths.

Reference image at http://bugguide.net/node/view/216633

Moved from Catabenoides.

Moved from Moths.