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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Heterocampinae » Heterocampa » Heterocampa pulverea - Hodges#7990.1 (Heterocampa pulverea)
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Unknown Notodontid 4 - Heterocampa pulverea
Copyright © 2014 Anonymous34

Unknown Notodontid 4 - Heterocampa pulverea
Anna, Union County, Illinois, USA
August 1, 2014
Attracted to MV lamp around 4 AM.
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Contributed by Anonymous34 on 8 August, 2014 - 5:33pm
Last updated 20 March, 2022 - 7:05pm

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Moved from Prominent Moths.
… Kyhl Austin, 11 June, 2017 - 10:43pm login or register to post comments

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Kyle, I have been comparing your images , , and with this one to see if I can move them from Notodontae to Genus at least and I am having a VERY hard time. I am pretty sure they are all the same species and I am also sure they are dark, solid forms of either Macrurocampa marthesia OR the Heterocampa umbrata. I have tried every thing to find a tie breaker and the only thing I can find is size.

It has been such a long time, but do you remember anything about the size impression they made on you or do you have other references to check against your sheet thread count?

I have been studing the Heterocampa umbrata here this week and have had nice fresh specimens of all of the different looks and both sexes, so I have a pretty good comparison. The differentiation is not difficult here because to my knowledge Macrurocampa marthesia has not been seen in West Texas.
… A. Hendrickson, 1 April, 2015 - 3:44pm login or register to post comments

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