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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Slug Caterpillar Moths (Limacodidae) » Adoneta » Adoneta pygmaea - Hodges#4683 (Adoneta pygmaea)
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Slug Moth - Adoneta pygmaea
Copyright © 2012 Lisa Dolliver

Slug Moth - Adoneta pygmaea
Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas, USA
August 22, 2012
Size: 8 mm
Adoneta pygmaea?
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Contributed by Lisa Dolliver on 28 August, 2012 - 11:09am
Last updated 16 September, 2012 - 1:58pm

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… Lisa Dolliver, 16 September, 2012 - 1:58pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 15 September, 2012 - 9:47am login or register to post comments

It is either
A. pygmaea or the different phenotype that occurs to the southwest of DFW. We do not yet know if they are separate species or not. Please keep photographing this genus, or better yet collect the specimen.
… James McDermott, 28 August, 2012 - 1:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
I will collect one if I see one again.
… Lisa Dolliver, 28 August, 2012 - 1:21pm login or register to post comments

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