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Unkown in Spicewood TX - Androloma disparata

Unkown in Spicewood TX - Androloma disparata
Spicewood , Travis County, Texas, USA
October 25, 2009
Size: monarch size only thinner
on my car cover wadded up on my porch. good size about as long as a monarch but a bit thinner. I placed it on a hop tree and it stayed for about 1/2 hour. Then dropped to the ground looking for better food I guess. It was a sunny day at noon. I had not seen this one before. And couldn't find a photo in my books that matched. Lots of snouts, queens, and sulfurs flying around at this time

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Unkown in Spicewood TX - Androloma disparata Unkown in Spicewood TX - Androloma disparata

Moved
Moved from Eight-spotted Forester.
Sorry, this has to be Androloma. Wish we had definitive resources, :(

Moved
Moved from Androloma disparata.
Sorry, changing our mind. After examining a number of images we now believe this is a very dark octomaculata. Androloma wouldn't have that bright white spot and would have visible orange feet and venter.

Moved
Moved from Agaristinae.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Looks to me like a species of
Alypia - a Spotted Forester Moth. It is definitely a moth in the subfamily Agaristinae. Most of the species I know are very fond of plants in the Grape Family. This one is very similar to yours, but may not be the same species:

 
Alypia
Thanks so much. We have a bunch of Grape for him to munch on.

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