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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Allotria » False Underwing - Hodges#8721 (Allotria elonympha)
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mystery moth #91753057 (give or take a few) - Allotria elonympha
Copyright © 2011 Joshua Stuart Rose

mystery moth #91753057 (give or take a few) - Allotria elonympha
Home adjacent to Amethyst Brook Conservation Area, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 16, 2010
I've wrestled through a few of my favorite moth ID resources for the northeastern US, but not yet figured out what this one is. Looks superficially like an underwing, but was much smaller and much earlier than any of the other species I saw here...
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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 26 March, 2011 - 9:02am
Last updated 27 March, 2011 - 11:00pm

Moved
Moved from Noctuoidea.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 27 March, 2011 - 11:00pm login or register to post comments

Maybe this
This looks like 8721 – Allotria elonympha to my untrained eye (see Bob Patterson's photo here).
… Randy Hardy, 26 March, 2011 - 3:57pm login or register to post comments

 
I think you've got it!
Thanks Randy, that does look like a match! Unless Bob himself weighs in otherwise... Interesting, neither the Guide or BAMONA shows the species for Massachusetts yet, though BAMONA at least has one for Connecticut.
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