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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) » Noctuini » Noctuina » Spaelotis » Spaelotis havilae - Hodges#10927 (Spaelotis havilae)
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(Spaelotis bicava) now: - Spaelotis havilae
Copyright © 2011 Jim Moore

(Spaelotis bicava) now: - Spaelotis havilae
Junction Hwy's 36 and A21 in Westwood by outdoor light; elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
July 15, 2010
Size: Forewing length 19mm
ID provided by BOLD Systems; DNA for this specimen is a 99.69% match with species Spaelotis bicava.


Species ID Update:

ID for this specimen to species Spaelotis havilae was updated and changed at BOLD Systems.
Specimen Identifier: J. Donald Lafontaine
Identification Method: genitalia 

DNA for this specimen is now a solid 100% match with several specimens of this species.

Please see here for the Spaelotis havilae species page at BOLD Systems:
And here for BOLD's Public Data Portal - BIN Page.
And here for this specimen's DNA Record Page at BOLD Systems.


Also please see here, at Pacific Northwest Moths, for the ID details that differentiate between these two species.
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Contributed by Jim Moore on 29 December, 2011 - 12:57am
Last updated 7 October, 2014 - 1:33am

Moved
My thanks to Maury J. Heiman for the new species page!

Moved from Spaelotis bicava.
… Jim Moore, 7 October, 2014 - 1:32am login or register to post comments

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