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Purplish Metarranthis - Hodges #6828 - Metarranthis homuraria - male
Copyright © 2014 Robert Lord Zimlich

Purplish Metarranthis - Hodges #6828 - Metarranthis homuraria - Male
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
March 27, 2014
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 28 March, 2014 - 12:33pm
Last updated 6 April, 2018 - 12:43pm

Moved
Moved from Metarranthis.
… Paul Dennehy, 26 April, 2016 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved to Metarranthis
Moved from Common Metarranthis.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 27 February, 2016 - 12:50am login or register to post comments

Purplish Metarranthis?
Though I'm certainly no expert, I'm thinking this might actually be Metarranthis homuraria - Purplish Metarranthis, based on the strongly scalloped hind wing...

"forewing dark reddish or purplish, and hindwing outer margin conspicuously scalloped (a distinctive combination among Metarranthis species)"

Thoughts?
… Tom, 7 August, 2014 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Scallops
Tom, thanks for catching. I just noticed it's different from this one.
Z
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 27 February, 2016 - 12:47am login or register to post comments

 
I agree
Also note the head is a brighter orange compared to hypochraria and the dark in the medial area is not well defined and bleeds over the pm line. Looking at the BIN clusters at BOLD shows overlap but this one seems more consistent with homuraria to me. Same for you image #335466.

I added print references to homuraria which mentions these and Tom's points. It's interesting because there was some controversy after species was described. The type specimen was lost and the species was erroneously synonymized with duaria. In later publications Grote explained the error and reiterated the differences between hypochraria and homuraria.

Edit - Just want to say that I don't mean to sound certain about the ID as I am not. I'm not sure any of these brighter examples can be identified with certainty.
… Steve Nanz, 26 February, 2016 - 10:15am login or register to post comments

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