Specimen ID in book question

frontier News account trgarden at frontiernet.net
Mon Apr 12 13:33:04 EDT 2010


I caught what I think is a Xylena nupera moth and while looking up some info 
on it.  I got a bit confused by the specimens Identified in Moths of Western 
North America by Powell and Opler.  Plate 53  specimens 35 and 36.  My 
specimen looks exactly like #36  Xylena brucei but the range is off for me 
in southern Minnesota.
But when I look up the specimen on the Moth photographers site I get a match 
with X. nupera. 
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/pinned.php?plate=31&sort=h

I am thinking that 35 and 36 are switched around?

What do you guys think?

Tom Middagh 


 
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