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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Eriopinae » Callopistria » Pink-shaded Fern Moth - Hodges#9631 (Callopistria mollissima)
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Shaggy Moth-what kind? - Callopistria mollissima
Copyright © 2006 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Shaggy Moth-what kind? - Callopistria mollissima
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
June 21, 2006
Size: 1/2" maybe
Never seen one like this
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 1 July, 2006 - 1:39pm
Last updated 2 July, 2006 - 12:31pm

looks like
Grote's Sallow Moth
Copivaleria grotei

Link to guide
http://bugguide.net/node/view/15291/bgimage
… Julia Booth, 2 July, 2006 - 2:31am login or register to post comments

 
this one is about 1/2 (or les
this one is about 1/2 (or less) the size of that species.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 2 July, 2006 - 2:38am login or register to post comments

 
Pink-shaded fern moth?
Not positive.
… Machele White, 2 July, 2006 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

 
That surely does look it!! I
That surely does look it!! I compared over and over-and it has to be that.

Thanks ^_^
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 2 July, 2006 - 12:29pm login or register to post comments

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