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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Pericopina » Gnophaela » Gnophaela latipennis - Hodges#8034 (Gnophaela latipennis)
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Gnophaela latipennis or Alypia ridingsii - Gnophaela latipennis - male - female
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Gnophaela latipennis or Alypia ridingsii - Gnophaela latipennis - Male Female
Jackson County, Oregon, USA
June 11, 2012
Pair mating, on cilantro plant. Bottom individual clearly has feather-like antennae while the other may not, or maybe the angle is edge-on. Looking at web photos I have become confused. Compare, for ex., these photos of A. ridingsii: http://www.cbif.gc.ca/spp_pages/noctuoidea/jpgs/image_e.php?image%5B%5D=109318.jpg%2CAlypia+langtoni&image%5B%5D=109314.jpg%2CAlypia+octomaculata&image%5B%5D=109319.jpg%2CAlypia+ridingsii, on Canadian government site; and BugGuide picture, http://bugguide.net/node/view/652012 and http://bugguide.net/node/view/652022. BugGuide photos show 3 clearly separated white markings on the forewing, while the Canadian photo shows two of the markings merged for a total of two. Googling Alypia ridingsii, most images show only two markings.

As for Gnophaela, bugguide photos (http://bugguide.net/node/view/138103, & http://bugguide.net/node/view/311626) show on the forewing the 3 straight-edged spots, and then 4 smaller roundish ones (2 quite a bit smaller) , while Butterflies & Moths of No America shows only 3 roundish spots http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Gnophaela-latipennis

Do the marks vary individually a lot, or regionally? or are the 2 species often erroneously ID'd?
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Contributed by editor10 on 9 July, 2012 - 6:03pm
Last updated 31 July, 2012 - 1:17am

location and appearance fit with Gnophaela latipennis
Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 31 July, 2012 - 1:17am login or register to post comments

Gnophaela for sure
Maybe Species Gnophaela vermiculata - Police Car Moth - Hodges#8037 see here: (1)

Hopefully an expert may be able to say witch species.
… Jim Moore, 9 July, 2012 - 6:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Moth ID
Thank you both for your suggestions. Online photos look quite like the pair I photographed.
… editor10, 21 August, 2012 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

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