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False Crocus/Crocus Geometer Moth - Xanthotype - female
Copyright © 2004 Cotinis

False Crocus/Crocus Geometer Moth - Xanthotype - Female
Wake County, North Carolina, USA
This lovely moth was found on the wall of a lighted breezeway in an apartment complex and photographed in place. This individual has quite the bold pattern. This must be a female, compare these photos by Lynn Scott of a male with very feathery antennae. (I examined the original scan at full magnification, and the antennae are quite threadlike in this photo.) Also compare Larry Line's photos from Maryland. These show some of the variability in markings.

All the specimens I've seen here in Durham have very heavy markings, I don't know if this is distinctive for a particular species or not:



Date TBA--PC. (Date was summer, 1993, probably June or perhaps July.)

ID TBA--PC (species, see comments)
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Contributed by Cotinis on 28 December, 2004 - 12:43pm
Last updated 17 March, 2005 - 6:10am

Xanthotype sp. differences
Apparently, Xanthotype urticaria and X. sospeta show considerable variation in color and pattern, and I don't know how to distinguish the two species. This link shows three X. sospeta, followed by three X. urticaria. Do any of the moth field guides (I don't have one) explain the differences?
… Robin McLeod, 29 December, 2004 - 8:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Yikes! Thanks, will check on this..
Well, I didn't know those two species were so similar. I'll check on what Covell, Field Guide to the Moths, has to say. (It is not available to me right now.) I had not done any sophisticated research on this at all.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 29 December, 2004 - 11:32pm login or register to post comments

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