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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Boarmiini » Anavitrinella » Anavitrinella ocularia - Hodges#6593 (Anavitrinella ocularia)
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Camouflage moth - Anavitrinella ocularia - female
Copyright © 2012 healthy anger

Camouflage moth - Anavitrinella ocularia - Female
Tehachapi, Kern County, California, USA
August 8, 2012
Size: 1 inch
A hidden moth on the wall in the bathroom at my wife's vacation home in the mountains. What kind is it?
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Contributed by healthy anger on 1 September, 2012 - 2:10pm
Last updated 1 March, 2022 - 11:18pm

MPG Photo Use
May I have permission to use this photo at Moth Photographers Group (MPG)?
… Steve Nanz, 7 March, 2022 - 4:20am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Iridopsis.
… Bob Biagi, 1 March, 2022 - 11:18pm login or register to post comments

Female
Antennae without pectines = ♀
Note, the discal spots on the hind-wings are not hollow. Therefore, this is probably not a member of the genus Iridopsis.
This might be a female Anavitrinella ocularia. (western) However, we don't have any example images, other than the specimens on MPG and BOLD.
Key features on the PM lines that may not always show up in images:
1) - Sharp inward-pointing tooth on the fore-wings, near the inner margin (sometimes smooth or indistinct)
2) - Sharp outward-pointing tooth on the hind-wings, near the costal edge
… Bob Biagi, 12 February, 2018 - 7:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Geometrid Moths.
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Moved
Moved from Moths.
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… john and jane balaban, 15 September, 2012 - 10:50am login or register to post comments

just Tehachapi, not "Tehachapi, CA"
state abbreviations are redundant (state added from another field) -- please refer to the filling instructions provided in the submission form and correct location data here and elsewhere on your submissions
… v belov, 1 September, 2012 - 10:28pm login or register to post comments

 
State Abreviations
Sorry to offend you. It was just a simple mistake due to my children running around distracting me.
… healthy anger, 2 September, 2012 - 1:41pm login or register to post comments

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