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Photo#32069
Moth - Feltia subgothica

Moth - Feltia subgothica
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 4, 2005
Can anyone ID this one?

Moved
Moved from Dingy Cutworm Moth.

Hi Jan,
I followed that URL but it led me to Feltia heri*lis. I pulled up four spp. from Ontario on that site and made an active link out of the page comparing them. Making active links is a good thing to do, especially when you have a reallllllly long URL because otherwise it stretches all the comments on the page way out to the right and makes things difficult if not confusing for other users.

Here's how you make an active link: [url=http://bugguide.net]BugGuide.Net Home Page[/url]

(You might wonder why this link is not an active link. In order to show you how to write the code to produce an active link, I had to write the code *in code* so it would not go active and hide the code from you. Had I not done that all you would see is the blue, underlined, active link and *still* not know how to write the code to produce it :-)

Instructions for this and other linkage solutions are available if you click the Help tab, then Markup.

I did not reply under your comment (thereby leaving your comment editable) so that you can fix it if you like. You'll have to scroll waaaaaaay to the right to find the Edit Your Comment link. While you're at it you may wish to do the same fix under Tom Murray's image.

BTW, I'm hardly a moth person but I do see your point about the subterminal line.

Not F. jaculifera
That is not Feltia jaculifera. Check the subterminal line and compare it with the one here: http://www.cbif.gc.ca/spp_pages/noctuoidea/jpgs/image_e.php?image%5B%5D=110676.jpg%2CFeltia+herilis&image%5B%5D=110670.jpg%2CFeltia+jaculifera&image%5B%5D=110674.jpg%2CFeltia+subgothica&image%5B%5D=110675.jpg%2CFeltia+tricosa

That is most likely Feltia subgothica.

Moved
to species page in guide.

 
Feltia subgothica
That is Feltia subgothica,10674.
You have here pictures of three different species of Feltia on this page. The main picture is Feltia subgothica. The picture below (in the middle) is true Feltia jaculifera. The last picture (bottom) is Feltia herilis, 10676.

Dingy Cutworm
Janice J. Stiefel I agree, this looks like a Dingy Cutworm (Feltia jaculifera) #10670. We have many of them in our area every summer and they are variable. Beautiful photo, by the way.

similar to
Feltia jaculifera Hodges# 10670, Dingy Cutworm

I hope so
I hope so, because I have the same or similar species I photographed about eighty miles south of you. For good measure I'll post mine too. It seems a little different from yours but that may just be individual variation or lost scales. Here it is:



What a beautiful image you took with the flower for a backdrop (Coneflower/Echinacea?) Nice work.

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
www.stephencresswell.com

 
Yours looks the same as mine.
Yours looks the same as mine. Thanks for the compliment. Yes, it is a coneflower. Almost all of my bug pictures are on these flowers - great for attracting butterflies,moths, bees, birds, etc.

June

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