Photo 26509653, (c) Chuck Sexton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Chuck Sexton

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November 15, 2012 08:47 PM CST

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While identifying moths from a recent western U.S. trip, I came to learn about Leucania phragmatidicola which I documented in the Texas Panhandle. In looking back at my unidentified Leucania's, I found this observation from Uvalde County in 2012. L. phragmatidicola is very similar to L. adjuta with the following differences:
-- It lacks the chocolate brown band across the top of the thorax;
-- The inner margins of the scapular tracts on the thorax (flanking the center of the thorax) have moderately distinct dark edges; this area is pale and unmarked in adjuta;
-- There is no dark dot below (towards the rear wing margin) the middle of the central white and brown streaks;
-- The inner margins of the FWs are speckled with dark scales.

If correct, this represents a rather southerly record for L. phragmatidocola, otherwise known in Texas only from the northern part of the state.
http://www.nearctica.com/leucania/sysfly/Lphragmat.htm
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=10444
I'll have another record to upload from Caprock Canyon SP shortly.

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