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Cool Geometrid - Thallophaga taylorata

Cool Geometrid - Thallophaga taylorata
Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California, USA
February 3, 2012
You've heard of Death's Head Moths? These two look like they have shrunken heads on them. (Maybe it's just my imagination). Compare with this different colored, but somewhat similar moth from a day earlier.


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Looks like Thallophaga taylorata - Hodges#6808
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=6808

 
It sure does!
Thanks, Ian!

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