Photo 5964347, (c) Chuck Sexton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Chuck Sexton

Attribution © Chuck Sexton
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Uploaded by gcwarbler gcwarbler
Source iNaturalist
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Observer

gcwarbler

Date

October 17, 2016 08:29 PM CDT

Description

I'm usually pretty shy about identifying Phycitine Pyralid moths to species but this seems like a good match to Crocidomera imitata, based on the following characters:

  1. Extensive whitish ground color,
  2. Distinctive dark dotted PM line and bold dots on terminal line;
  3. Extensive dusky mottling near rear margins of FWs, creating a wide dusky patch on the folded wings.
    Compare with MPG and BG:
    http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5706
    http://bugguide.net/node/view/247452
    The species has previously been recorded in CenTex.

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