Apamea? - Mniotype - BugGuide.Net

Moved

… Steve Nanz, 2 April, 2023 - 5:47am

Moved to Mniotype tenera

Moved from Apamea zeta.

Tentative ID. This looks like many of your iNat submissions of Mniotype tenera. Is there a reason you did not move this yourself? MPG has no live images of tenera and I would like to add some of yours. Were they all identified by you? Thanks in advance!

… Steve Nanz, 2 April, 2023 - 5:18am

Thanks

Thanks Steve - I have never been certain about my Mniotype tenera IDs. At some point along the way I decided I would just call all the ones that looked similar enough by this name, but I think I have older observations that are still in Noctuidae or maybe Mniotype which I would now just call M. tenera. This one was one of those: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19775837

These commonly show up at lights where I live most years, so as you no doubt saw, I have a lot of observations on iNaturalist that I've called M. tenera. That said, it's all just based on "these things look alike to me" and I would much prefer if I had more expert confirmation on them, as I may be drawing too big of a circle around the variation and including multiple species. I did get one iNaturalist observation confirmed by folks with more expertise (after that I felt a little more comfortable with the name, but still not fully confident).

… Matt Goff, 2 April, 2023 - 1:21pm

Send me

some abdomens and I will dissect!

… A.W. Thomas, 2 April, 2023 - 1:46pm

how about

9348 Apamea amputatrix ?

… A.W. Thomas, 17 July, 2020 - 5:39am

To my knowledge, this should

To my knowledge, this should be a Mniotype. I wouldn't say this is Apamea zeta. In any case, it looks completely different from European Apamea zeta specimens.

… José Luis Yela, 17 July, 2020 - 2:47am

Moved

Moved from Owlet Moths.

… A.W. Thomas, 30 March, 2018 - 2:03pm

Apamea zeta

Looks like Apamea zeta.

… Jan Metlevski , 10 June, 2014 - 2:01pm