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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 nigra - Hodges#9101.1 (Ponometia nigra)
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Which moth is this? - Ponometia nigra
Copyright © 2014 cindykeiser

Which moth is this? - Ponometia nigra
Escondido, San Diego County, California, USA
March 17, 2014
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Which moth is this? - Ponometia nigra Which moth is this? - Ponometia nigra
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Contributed by cindykeiser on 17 March, 2014 - 3:52pm
Last updated 30 November, 2015 - 11:27pm

MPG Photo Permission Request
May I have permission to use this and possibly your other BugGuide photos at Moth Photographers Group (MPG)? Please send me an email if you are interested in contributing photos to MPG and I will set up an account for your images.
… Steve Nanz, 29 May, 2020 - 1:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively
Moved from Moths.
… Kyhl Austin, 30 November, 2015 - 11:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 6 April, 2014 - 7:27pm login or register to post comments

i think its pyla
see:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/816307/bgimage
… Edna Woodward, 18 March, 2014 - 12:02am login or register to post comments

 
or
not...I guess this is ruled out
… Edna Woodward, 18 March, 2014 - 7:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Not a Pyralid (wrong palps)
Looks like a tort to me, don't know it off hand.
… Chris Grinter, 18 March, 2014 - 2:57pm login or register to post comments

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