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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Macariini » Macaria » Red-headed Inchworm - Hodges#6342 (Macaria bisignata)
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unidentified moth - Macaria bisignata
Copyright © 2011 L. Perry Fuqua

unidentified moth - Macaria bisignata
Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
May 26, 2011
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Contributed by L. Perry Fuqua on 26 July, 2011 - 10:27am
Last updated 26 July, 2011 - 12:30pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Maury J. Heiman, 26 July, 2011 - 12:30pm login or register to post comments

Macaria bisignata - Red-headed Inchworm - Hodges #6342
Macaria bisignata - Red-headed Inchworm - Hodges #6342, with the distinctive three dark spots where the transverse lines meet costa and the rectangular dark spot where the subterminal band meets the costa. The second smaller spot in the subterminal band is not always present and is weak in this one.
… Maury J. Heiman, 26 July, 2011 - 12:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Awesome Maury !!! Moths are
Awesome Maury !!! Moths are difficult for me because I never studied them. A few years ago a team of scientists worked for weeks collecting moths in the Great Smoky Mountains at night with lights and some kind of fumes. I don't know what they ended up doing with all the info, but I'm pretty sure they carried all the mounted specimens to D.C. for cataloging and probably found new species in the group. I wish they would publish a book about it. Have you heard about this before?

Thanks for the ID.
… L. Perry Fuqua, 26 July, 2011 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

One of the
Macaria genus. Specific species often difficult.
… Doug, 26 July, 2011 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Doug.
Thanks Doug.
… L. Perry Fuqua, 26 July, 2011 - 12:26pm login or register to post comments

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