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Red-bordered Emerald - Hodges#7033 (Nemoria lixaria) - Nemoria lixaria - male
Copyright © 2011 Richard Wolfert

Red-bordered Emerald - Hodges#7033 (Nemoria lixaria) - Nemoria lixaria - Male
Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
June 4, 2011
This individual is interestingly different in that it shows both coloring possibilities…early and mid-season. Perhaps it would eventually display the green throughout, but I am not in any position to know this.
It also indicates spots along the costa where it meets the am. line and the median line, and the spotting at the am. line and the median line where they meet forewing and hindwing cells.

Attracted to CF lights at back of house.
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Contributed by Richard Wolfert on 27 July, 2011 - 11:06am

Contradiction?
I was just looking at N. lixaria images to justify the ID of the moth I just photographed and discovered this half green-half tan specimen you have posted. The Info page for N. lixaria tells us that it does not have a brown spring variant "like N. bistriaria." Maybe your specimen is the latter?
… Peter Homann, 17 November, 2013 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

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