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Can You Help ID This Moth?
Photographed this morning in High Mountain Park Preserve.
Thank you.
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Thanks. Paul John, a gentleman on the Moths of the Eastern United States Facebook Page thought it might be a Catocala palaeogama…
I’ll just say it’s likely an underwing…
Much appreciated. -
Looks like an underwing (Catocala spp.) but there are other moths in the Noctuidae along with Catocala that look pretty similar. It’s tough without a view of the hind wings.
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Jim Wright
Thanks. Paul John, a gentleman on the Moths of the Eastern United States Facebook Page thought it might be a Catocala palaeogama…
I’ll just say it’s likely an underwing…
Much appreciated.
Dana Price
Looks like an underwing (Catocala spp.) but there are other moths in the Noctuidae along with Catocala that look pretty similar. It’s tough without a view of the hind wings.