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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Leaf Skeletonizer Moths (Zygaenidae)
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Leaf Skeletonizer Moth - male
Copyright © 2013 Alice Abela

Leaf Skeletonizer Moth - Male
Mount Lemmon, Pima County, Arizona, USA
July 22, 2013
Size: ~1cm
Found with three others like it on leaf in woodland (not sure of the plant, but it was not grape); reminds me of the grapeleaf skelotonizers, but much smaller. Found with Aaron Schusteff on the way to the Bugguide gathering
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Contributed by Alice Abela on 24 December, 2013 - 1:59pm
Last updated 21 October, 2018 - 7:19pm

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I really don't like Harrisina metallica for this one. I'm wondering if it's the same species as . I'm really liking the size and proportions of Acoloithus rectarius 4627 for mine. The A. rectarius on MPG has an orange collar, but the description on http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/Zyg.html#Zygaenidae says the collar should be entirely black which fits with mine.
… Alice Abela, 21 October, 2018 - 7:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer.
… Alice Abela, 21 October, 2018 - 7:12pm login or register to post comments

 
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I am sure you are right. Thank you for the correction.
… A. Hendrickson, 21 October, 2018 - 7:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.

Can't be anything other than [thumb:645653} unless it is one of the many spread plates on MPG, but this image would not be sufficient to identify it as one of those.
… A. Hendrickson, 29 January, 2015 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

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