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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Crambid Snout Moths (Crambidae) » Spilomelinae » Herpetogrammatini » Blepharomastix » Blepharomastix potentalis - Hodges#5184 (Blepharomastix potentalis)Photo#1535897Copyright © 2018 Jim EckertArizona Moth - _Blepharomastix potentalis_Miller Canyon, Huachucha Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USAMay 27, 2018Size: 10 mm lengthHard to determine whether it is Noctuid, Geomotrid or perhaps Pyraustid. Common at Miller Canyon on sheet with UV black light. All were patterened with the same degree of indistinctness of this specimen. Submitted for ideas as to ID. Upon further review, appears to be Blepharomastix potentalis from one BOLD image.tag · login or register to post commentsContributed by Jim Eckert on 12 June, 2018 - 7:02pmLast updated 11 February, 2022 - 11:10pm Moved Moved from Blepharomastix. … Maury J. Heiman, 21 July, 2018 - 4:00pm login or register to post comments Moved Moved from ID Request. … Kyhl Austin, 12 June, 2018 - 7:10pm login or register to post comments Blepharomastix potentalis would also have been my suggestion Moved from ID Request for expert attention. … Kyhl Austin, 12 June, 2018 - 7:08pm login or register to post comments Comment viewing options Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.

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