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Polillas Búho (Superfamilia Noctuoidea)Observ.
ouzelDescripción
Under an inch long
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lesditFecha
Septiembre 2024Descripción
~4150' elevation.
CA Biodiversity Week Sept-7-15, 2024.
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lesditFecha
Septiembre 2024Descripción
?
~4150' elevation.
CA Biodiversity Week September 7-15, 2024.
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dietelDescripción
Hmm. Something like Apamea sordens maybe (which I don't think is found in California).
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lesditDescripción
~4150' elevation.
Very tentative!
CV says Leucania & Resapamea stipata. R. stipata is very out of range & although not white, these observations seem to have similar markings ?!?
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/232420167
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238064917
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Polilla de Vitrales Pequeños (Samea multiplicalis)Observ.
garybnunnDescripción
First record I can find for California. Really wish I had taken better photos.
I checked the distribution of its host plants and it does appear that the water plant Giant Salvinia (Salvinia molesta) has been found in the area nearby.
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Arachnis citraObserv.
lesditDescripción
~7100' elevation.
National Moth Week July 20-28, 2024.
Base color of moth is a light salmon color, not really shown in the photos.
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euproserpinusDescripción
Possibly an early flight date for CA (MPG currently lists only Washington State as having July flight dates).
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garybnunnDescripción
This appears to be the Eurasian species Acentria ephemerella, apparently introduced to North America from Eurasia in the 1920s with water plants and/or later as a biological control agent of Potomogeton and Elodea pondweed species.
Lamp sheet close to Cave Lake, large numbers of this species appeared later in the evening.
A single point is shown on the MPG page here for California https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5299 which looks to be a little south of this location but still in the Warner Mountains.
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garybnunnDescripción
The unmarked abdomen would seem to indicate this is not Chlorosea banksaria, the abdomen marked red in that species, and the parallel nature of the forewing PM line to hind margin points to identification as C. nevadaria and not C. margaretaria in which the PM line is strongly angled from the hind margin.
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Givira ethelaObserv.
lesditDescripción
~7100' elevation.
National Moth Week July 20-28, 2024.
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garybnunnDescripción
The pale buff hindwing with some darker coppery colored scales, and entirely pale buff thorax without reddish tuft or marking would seem to indicate this is Oligia rampartensis and not O. violacea.
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chloe_and_trevorDescripción
Apparently a somewhat rare species. http://pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu/browse/family-noctuidae/subfamily-plusiinae/tribe-plusiini/autographa/autographa-speciosa/
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garybnunnDescripción
This might be the nicest pug moth I ever found in California! The scalloped white subterminal line would seem to indicate this is Eupithecia stellata and not E. bowmani (latter unrecorded in California so far as I can tell).
Distribution map of E. stellata at MPG shows single point in California http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7564
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Arachnis citraObserv.
garybnunnDescripción
Looks identical with example at MPG http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?phylo=930329&state=CA
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chloe_and_trevorDescripción
7000ft, gravelly ridge at edge of red fir forest, UV light.
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chloe_and_trevorDescripción
7000ft, gravelly ridge at edge of red fir forest, UV light.
