Caterpillar ID, in Virginia, on Meadow Rue

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"David Hamilton Cox" <dhcox at nyx.net> wrote in message 
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> That should be Calyptra canadensis, not Calyptris canadensis.
>
> I have a bunch of moth photos, some supposed day I am going to organize
> and submit to that great moth photo site but in the meantime when I go
> to the trouble to post here it motivates me to ask about one or the other,
> try this one: http://www.nyx.net/~dhcox/moth3.jpg which was perched on
> my window back on March 26 of this year. The forelegs seem oddly placed
> to me -- farther forward. I thought they might be the antennae at first
> but I think they are the forelegs.
>
> -David Cox
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Ah, that one I know, at least to genus. Family Geometridae, genus 
Eupithecia. This is a tough genus as there are many members of Eupithecia 
that look a lot like that, something like over 100 species in NA. I believe 
genitalia are used to identify many of them. Those are it's forelegs btw. 



 
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