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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Arzamini » Bellura » Black-tailed Diver - Hodges#9523.1  (Bellura vulnifica)
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Black-tailed Diver - Bellura vulnifica
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Black-tailed Diver - Bellura vulnifica
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 31, 2011

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Contributed by tom murray on 14 August, 2011 - 4:57pm
Last updated 7 August, 2021 - 3:45pm

Moved
Moved from White-tailed Diver.
Steve, thanks for catching that, they were definitely placed at the wrong species.
… tom murray, 7 August, 2021 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

Bellura vulnifica?
Tom, I just found Bellura gortynoides in Indiana this week. When placing under BugGuide, I noticed this image and another one you found a month earlier that look more like the images of Bellura vulnifica including several that you have placed there. They all have a very bold dark PM line and are darker marked overall. On your June 2011 moth, you agreed with Edna Woodward's suggestion of vulnifica and yet that image was placed under gortynoides. Just wondering if these have been placed in error and may need to be moved to vulnifica? There is an image like yours under gortynoides by Earl Orf from Minnesota. You will see that I have made a similar comment on that image.
… Steve Morris, 7 August, 2021 - 11:17am login or register to post comments

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