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moth - Macaria aemulataria
Copyright © 2011 Joe Zito

moth - Macaria aemulataria
Cedar Rapids/ICNC, Linn County, Iowa, USA
August 7, 2011
I estimated size, and probably overestimated.
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Contributed by Joe Zito on 7 August, 2011 - 9:14pm
Last updated 8 August, 2011 - 7:54am

Macaria aemulataria - Common Angle - Hodges #6326
Moved from ID Request.

3 cm wingspan is large for M. aemulataria.
Macaria promiscuata is the larger of the two (25 mm), but the western limits of the range is from about Madison, Wisconsin to SE corner of Kansas and south to Houston.(1) The two are basically identical from the dorsal view, but the ventral side of the wings are different and easily distinguished. In M. promiscuata the medial line is closer to the antemedial than the postmedial line.

Nice photo.
… Maury J. Heiman, 7 August, 2011 - 11:08pm login or register to post comments

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