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Owlet - Hodges #9556 - Cloaked Marvel - Hodges #9557 - Chytonix sensilis

Owlet - Hodges #9556 - Cloaked Marvel - Hodges #9557 - Chytonix sensilis
Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA
October 18, 2013
Size: forewing ~14mm
At outdoor light. I made the MPG walk several times, always slowing down in the Apamea neighborhood, but could not find a good match anywhere. Where did I miss the obvious?

Moved
Moved from Cloaked Marvel.

Chytonix sensilis
This is Chytonix sensilis. C. sensilis will have little or no white and a fair amount of reddish tones, especially in the terminal area.

 
Interesting!
Thank you, Ken, for detecting my post in a wrong place and for correcting the ID. Having been aware of "differences in overall appearance" I should have looked at other Chytonix.

Moved
Moved from Moths.

Not much else it could be. Nice!

I agree, Cloaked Marvel.
I think that Fyn Kynd's keen perception has solved the problem I had with the ID of this moth. I looked at my own not white-patched specimen of #9556 Chytonix palliatricula and realized that the lines and black markings of its forewing are quite similar to those of the specimen in this post in spite of the obvious differences in overall appearance.

Chytonix palliatricula, maybe?

 
Interesting!
Thank you, Fyn, I'm so glad that someone looks at the posts and comments. I have to mull this over. I had this species previously, the white patched form and the "dark" form, but in the latter case I could use the white dash at the margin below the black area as a key. This one does not have one (not conspicuously at least) but otherwise your suggestion is very attractive.

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