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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Spilomelinae » Herpetogrammatini » Herpetogramma » Dusky Herpetogramma - Hodges#5274 (Herpetogramma phaeopteralis)
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Can this Moth be ID'd? - Herpetogramma phaeopteralis
Copyright © 2012 A. Hendrickson

Can this Moth be ID'd? - Herpetogramma phaeopteralis
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
December 28, 2012
I caught this moth but it flew away before I got any more pictures. I think it looks like a Pyraustini - possibly a Saucrobotys futilas, Dogbane Saucrobotus, Hodges # 4936.
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Contributed by A. Hendrickson on 29 December, 2012 - 11:28pm
Last updated 24 January, 2014 - 8:21pm

Moved
Moved from Pyraustinae.
… Paul Dennehy, 24 January, 2014 - 8:21pm login or register to post comments

 
..
Wow, you have bothered to put a lot of different examples together. Thank you very much for ALL of us!
… A. Hendrickson, 24 January, 2014 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… A. Hendrickson, 4 January, 2013 - 10:52am login or register to post comments

Hmmm ...
The PM is not jagged like a Dogbane and Dogbanes do not have a dotted terminal line. This looks more like ...

… Robert Lord Zimlich, 30 December, 2012 - 12:21am login or register to post comments

 
Don't think so...
...since Udea rubigalis typically has a buffy or cream ground color with a hollow, figure-8 reniform spot and circular orbicular spot (not terribly clear on the linked image). Can't suggest an alternative yet without further study...later this year!
… Chuck Sexton, 1 January, 2013 - 12:13am login or register to post comments

 
Happy New Year
my bug-eyed friend :)
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 1 January, 2013 - 12:16am login or register to post comments

 
Or maybe #4992
Uresiphita reversalis (Genista Broom Moth)
… jross12, 30 December, 2012 - 1:03am login or register to post comments

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