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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Boarmiini » Stenoporpia » Stenoporpia dissonaria - Hodges#6461 (Stenoporpia dissonaria)
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Moth ID Request - Stenoporpia dissonaria
Copyright © 2014 A. Hendrickson

Moth ID Request - Stenoporpia dissonaria
Camp Wood, Edwards County, Texas, USA
March 27, 2014
I almost didn't capture this one because I am so tired of I. defectarias. I think it might be Hodges #6575 Irridopsis clivinaria - Mt. Mahogany Looper. To me, it looks like Jim Troubridge's photo on MPG which has the same body markings. We do have Mt. Mahogany on our property. Attracted to a Black Light.
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Contributed by A. Hendrickson on 27 March, 2014 - 12:56pm
Last updated 28 January, 2018 - 2:19pm

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Moved from Ennominae.

Thanks to Bob Biagi, I asked Ed Knudson to review this image and others in my files. He says that both S. dissonaria and S. anastomosaria are in my range and I can have both. He says this one is S. dissonaria and I have not sent a specimen looking like this one to BOLD.

My apologies for arguing, Bob. At least we now have some pictures.
… A. Hendrickson, 28 January, 2018 - 2:19pm login or register to post comments

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Ann, take a look at the MPG and BOLD specimens of Stenoporpia dissonaria. They have smoothly curved and doubled PM lines on both wings. Some have a tooth near the inner margin and some don't, like your's. (...also with paired dots on the abdomen)
… Bob Biagi, 26 January, 2018 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

 
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Bob, I don't know what experience you have with Stenoporpia but I have considered that S. Dionaria as well. The BOLD spreads are VERY different from the photographs identified on BG and this moth does not look like them at all. I have sent 3 Stenoporpias to BOLD, and all have come back in a BIN with S. dionaria the photographs of which on BG do not look at all like my moths. Additionally, when Chris Schmidt was here he identified a moth that he collected here S. atomasaria. So I assume that is the only Stenoporpia I have here.

I have never considered S. dissonaria. I consider this Genus another of those that are very confusing and under studied and with few live pictures that are confidently identified.

You can do what you want with this one. I still think I could make a case for . That one has the same body markings. Or Iridopsis obliquaria which I also considered. I have the host plants for that species and it is known to range into Texas.
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