Specimen ID in book question

[Gary Anweiler]

Yes.  The two are reversed.  I had not noticed it. There are one or two 
others like that as well.

Gary  Anweiler
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Subject: Specimen ID in book question


>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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