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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Agaristinae » Alypiodes » Alypiodes geronimo - Hodges#9313 (Alypiodes geronimo)
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Alypiodes bimaculata larva - Alypiodes geronimo
Copyright © 2011 cwmelton

Alypiodes bimaculata larva - Alypiodes geronimo
Miller Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
September 21, 2011
Size: Length 28 mm.
Feeding on Boerhavia erecta.
Identification provided by local moth expert Noel McFarland.

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Alypiodes bimaculata larva - Alypiodes geronimo Alypiodes bimaculata - Alypiodes geronimo - male
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Contributed by cwmelton on 22 September, 2011 - 3:57pm
Last updated 16 August, 2013 - 7:18pm

Moved
Moved from Two-spotted Forester.
… margarethe brummermann, 16 August, 2013 - 7:18pm login or register to post comments

This is most interesting
One of the observant contributors, Rick Buss, noticed that this is a bimaculata caterpillar but a geronimo moth. Is it possible that Bruce had them confused on the Arizona moth site? Can you check with Noel and see if he can shed some light on this? Curious!
… john and jane balaban, 20 August, 2012 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

 
I have been wondering about that moth
I showed the photos to Noel and he was perplexed.
I sent them to Bruce Walsh and for the moth he replied:
"looks like Alypiodes geronimo [ MONA 9313 ] --- it should have a white patch on the hindwing (which is covered in the photo by the forewing)"
For the larva he replied:
"Yeah, the larva sure does look like bimaculata. Do you have a photo of the dorsal surface of the hindwing --- it's solid black in bimaculata, but with a large white patch in geronimo. Perhaps a hybrid??"

I do not have a photo with the hindwing showing. I do not recall if it had white patches and I did not keep the specimen. I could not have mistakenly mislabeled an A. geronimo larva because I had never seen one until after the moth emerged.

A mystery to me.
… cwmelton, 21 August, 2012 - 3:05pm login or register to post comments

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