Unknown Midwestern Moths

James J. Kruse kruse at nature.Berkeley.EDU
Fri Apr 21 12:54:11 EDT 2000


Hi Kurt,

I will try to hit a few of the skipped ones:

#2 looks like Psaphida electilis (Noctuidae)

#6 Magusa orbifera (Noctuidae)

#8 Gluphesia spp. (Notodontidae)



> Hi Kurt,
> 
>     #1 is noctua pronuba, a fairly recent immigrant from Europe
>     #3 is the Oak Beauty Nocophora quernaria
>     #5 is the Chickweed Geometer (Haematopis grataria)
>     #4 Looks like some sort of Papaipema possibly
>     #7 is a Geometer...looks like Phigalia titea ..but I can't swear to it!
>       #6 ....never seen anything like it.
>         # 10 is some sort of  dagger-wing I think Acronicta sp. possibly A. impleta
>         #8 looks like some sort of Notodondidae as does #2
>         #9 is a grey moth!!!
>         #13 is another Geometer.  Probably a Tornos sp.
>         #11 also looks like a Geo...but I haven't a clue!
> 
> Kurt Jacobs wrote:
>       I have a group of 13 moths collected in Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1998 that
>       I have had some trouble in identifying.  If anyone is up to the challenge,
> 
>       http://www.home.earthlink.net/~morphidae/home.html
> 
>       Kurt Jacobs


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