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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Ponometia » Ponometia acutus - Hodges#9105 (Ponometia acutus)
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Pale Owlet Moth - Ponometia acutus
Copyright © 2013 Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara

Pale Owlet Moth - Ponometia acutus
San Pedro River Valley, SE of San Manuel, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
April 12, 2013
Found at light at night; I suspect this is a pale Arizona Bird Dropping Moth - Hodges#9109 (Ponometia elegantula). Thank you for your help.

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Contributed by Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara on 17 April, 2013 - 1:04pm
Last updated 7 December, 2020 - 9:45am

Moved
Moved from Ponometia.

My thanks to Sue Carnahan for her references below. I have read Poole's description. I compared the second photograph to this one in making my decision to move to species.

This ID has been a long time coming!
… A. Hendrickson, 7 December, 2020 - 9:45am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Acontiini.

I think your species is probably right.
… A. Hendrickson, 16 August, 2020 - 2:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Ponometia acutus?
Robert Poole's Nearctica page for P. acutus has a "Light Form from AZ" that looks like this moth. See http://www.nearctica.com/moths/noctuid/acontia/ponometia/ponometia_acutus.htm
… Sue Carnahan, 3 December, 2020 - 7:51am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… A. Hendrickson, 26 December, 2014 - 2:47pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 29 April, 2013 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

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