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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Pangraptinae » Ledaea » Lost Owlet - Hodges#8491 (Ledaea perditalis)
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Buttonbush Moth - Ledaea perditalis
Copyright © 2012 Charley Eiseman

Buttonbush Moth - Ledaea perditalis
Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, USA
August 29, 2012
Raised from one of two caterpillars that appeared in a bag of buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) leaves I had collected, trying to rear Mompha leafminers.
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 31 August, 2012 - 6:37am

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Thanks! Wikipedia calls it the buttonbush owlet. Looks/sounds good to me!
… Charley Eiseman, 31 August, 2012 - 7:34am login or register to post comments

Ledaea perditalis?
It looks a lot like Tom Murray's photo:
… marcie oconnor, 31 August, 2012 - 7:28am login or register to post comments

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