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116 Catocala delilah or desdemona or other? - Catocala delilah
Copyright © 2014 Delmar Cain

116 Catocala delilah or desdemona or other? - Catocala delilah
Boerne, near Cave Without A Name, Kendall County, Texas, USA
May 27, 2014
Came to porch light
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Contributed by Delmar Cain on 6 August, 2014 - 11:08pm
Last updated 25 May, 2016 - 10:42am

Moved
Moved from Underwings.

Those two species are incredibly difficult to separate, and in fact are often so close genetically that it appears to be a species complex with little distinction between the two.

Having said that, I moved yours to delilah primarily due to the thickened AM line, which in delilah, seems to be typically thickened in the first 2/3 of the AM line coming from the costa and then rather abruptly thins before reaching the inner margin, as opposed to desdemona, where it is more or less uniform from point A to point B.
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