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Winterberry Rhopobota - Rhopobota dietziana - female
Copyright © 2013 Charley Eiseman

Winterberry Rhopobota - Rhopobota dietziana - Female
Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
September 25, 2013
Size: 6 mm
Reared from an Ilex verticillata leaf collected 8/15/13.
Specimen examined by Jason Dombroskie, who confirmed the species and sex.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 25 September, 2013 - 7:02pm
Last updated 6 December, 2013 - 1:36pm

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Very nice! Do you have an image of the caterpillar?
… Fyn Kynd, 25 September, 2013 - 7:23pm

 
I think so
(or one of its siblings)... but I'm really still back in last November in my photo sorting, so I may not get around to uploading the caterpillar pic for a while. Thanks for the ID! I suspected as much, but wasn't sure about R. finitimana with only a couple of examples of that species to go on.
… Charley Eiseman, 25 September, 2013 - 7:40pm

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