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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Acentropinae » Argyractini » Petrophila » Heppner's Petrophila - Hodges#4784.1 (Petrophila heppneri)
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Moth - 4760? - Petrophila heppneri
Copyright © 2010 Graham Montgomery

Moth - 4760? - Petrophila heppneri
Vanderpool, Bandera County, Texas, USA
August 8, 2010
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Contributed by Graham Montgomery on 16 August, 2010 - 8:31pm
Last updated 21 April, 2017 - 10:31am

Moved
Moved from Petrophila.

Graham, based on recent BOLD testing of some of my specimens, I am placing to species. Better late than never!
… A. Hendrickson, 21 April, 2017 - 10:31am login or register to post comments

 
Sounds good!
Thanks for working on the mystery!
… Graham Montgomery, 22 April, 2017 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Petrophila kearfottalis.
… Graham Montgomery, 11 December, 2012 - 12:07am login or register to post comments

Not P. kearfottalis
As shown at MPG, P. kearfottalis is distinguished by a small black-outlined oval patch in the white background of the HW, in contrast to the salt-and-pepper speckling in this specimen. Your moth is closer to P. jaliscalis, seen here on MPG and here on BG, but doesn't quite look like the ones here in the Austin area. Yours has substantially more orange in the outer 1/4 of the FW than what I usually see. There are a couple of other species which are poorly known in Texas (e.g. P. daemonalis and P. cappsi among others). I suggest moving this image back to Petrophila genus until it can be determined better.
… Chuck Sexton, 10 December, 2012 - 11:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Will do
Thanks for the guidance, Chuck.
… Graham Montgomery, 11 December, 2012 - 12:07am login or register to post comments

Thanks for the correction!
Moved from Moths.
… Graham Montgomery, 25 March, 2011 - 9:49am login or register to post comments

not 4760 a Petrophila probabl
not 4760 a Petrophila probably 4773 Petrophila kearfottalis
… Martin Turgeon, 25 March, 2011 - 1:18am login or register to post comments

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