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Unidentified - Pimaphera sparsaria - male
Copyright © 2011 Mark Dreiling

Unidentified - Pimaphera sparsaria - Male
Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma, USA
August 14, 2010
DNA barcoding done but no matches found in BOLD, LPOKE152-10
This specimen is shown here: BOLD:AAH5310
Found at UV light near pond in wooded area of a flood plain.
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Contributed by Mark Dreiling on 17 May, 2011 - 7:47am
Last updated 11 March, 2019 - 10:56pm

Pimaphera sparsaria - Hodges #6442 (T)
Moved from Sterrhinae.

listed for Oklahoma and none have been sampled at BOLD. Tentative placement and hopefully there will be at match at BOLD soon.
… Maury J. Heiman, 18 August, 2011 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks good
I will pass the suggested identification on to Guelph.
… Mark Dreiling, 18 August, 2011 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

 
There is another, Pimaphera
There is another, Pimaphera percata, but I think it is restricted to southern Texas. I will find my notes and check.
Did you get the forewing length?
… Maury J. Heiman, 18 August, 2011 - 3:12pm login or register to post comments

 
DNA update
Now listed as Pimaphera sparsaria at BOLD BOLD:AAH5310
… Mark Dreiling, 12 November, 2013 - 10:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Geometrid Moths. Identified at the U. of Guelph at the Sterrhinae level.
… Mark Dreiling, 18 August, 2011 - 4:34am login or register to post comments

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