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At porchlight. This individual shows some rich brown in the middle of the FW. FW ~24mm.
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I'm not sure if this dark form is a spring generation, but it is certainly one of the more striking morphs of this big species.
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Probably the largest Lunate Zale that ever flew into my porchlight. FW was measured at 26mm, so WS on the order of 5.8 cm.
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On wall above light
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Single UV light tube on vertical white sheet
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Unknown moth.
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On window near light
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I'm told this is an owlet moth. On the basement door this morning.
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Photographed at a porchlight on the Beard tract of Balcones Canyonlands NWR.
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Moth.
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Moth.
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Brief description of what you observed
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"Lunate Zale Moth (Zale lunata) 14 August 2014: Walked about Avondale Park in Denton, Texas, and came upon a Lunate Zale Moth (Zale lunata), that's been IDentified for us by the generous assistance of Robert Lord Zimlich, Contributing Editor, at BugGuide, which is hosted and based in the Department of Entomology at Iowa State University. To review the ID made on BugGuide, go here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1165763. The range map for Lunate Zale Moth provided in the Moth Photographers Group (MPG) indicates that this moth is found extensively in the eastern half of the United States and that its range is solidly established too along the West Coast of the United States up to British Columbia in Canada. It is found as far north as the southeast of Canada bordering with the United States and the Great Lakes area and then extends southward along the Atlantic Coast as well as west and east of the great Mississippi River all the way to southern Florida and the Caribbean nations and to the west into Texas to the border with Mexico as occurs similarly in southern California indicating a presence of this moth in northern Mexico and perhaps farther south as well. The region from its presence in the eastern half of the United States to the West Coast leaves a large area where it apparently does not fly but it is present to a lesser extent in New Mexico and Arizona in this regard. Because of its extensive presence in North America including the Caribbean Lunate Zale Moth is an authentic resident of the Western Hemisphere. Avondale Park is administered by the City of Denton, Texas. Sources: ""Species Zale lunata - Lunate Zale - Hodges#8689,â BugGuide, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, to access the ID made by Robert Lord Zimlich and access additional images and discussion of additional observations made of this moth species including a range map, go to: http://bugguide.net/node/view/4197 ""Zale lunata â Lunate Zale Moth â (Drury, 1773),"" North American Moth Photographers Group, Mississippi Entomological Museum, Mississippi State University, for a wide array of additional photographs of this moth species and for a range map of the same go to: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=8689"
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"Lunate Zale Moth (Zale lunata) 14 August 2014: Walked about Avondale Park in Denton, Texas, and came upon a Lunate Zale Moth (Zale lunata), that's been IDentified for us by the generous assistance of Robert Lord Zimlich, Contributing Editor, at BugGuide, which is hosted and based in the Department of Entomology at Iowa State University. To review the ID made on BugGuide, go here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1165763. The range map for Lunate Zale Moth provided in the Moth Photographers Group (MPG) indicates that this moth is found extensively in the eastern half of the United States and that its range is solidly established too along the West Coast of the United States up to British Columbia in Canada. It is found as far north as the southeast of Canada bordering with the United States and the Great Lakes area and then extends southward along the Atlantic Coast as well as west and east of the great Mississippi River all the way to southern Florida and the Caribbean nations and to the west into Texas to the border with Mexico as occurs similarly in southern California indicating a presence of this moth in northern Mexico and perhaps farther south as well. The region from its presence in the eastern half of the United States to the West Coast leaves a large area where it apparently does not fly but it is present to a lesser extent in New Mexico and Arizona in this regard. Because of its extensive presence in North America including the Caribbean Lunate Zale Moth is an authentic resident of the Western Hemisphere. Avondale Park is administered by the City of Denton, Texas. Sources: ""Species Zale lunata - Lunate Zale - Hodges#8689,â BugGuide, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, to access the ID made by Robert Lord Zimlich and access additional images and discussion of additional observations made of this moth species including a range map, go to: http://bugguide.net/node/view/4197 ""Zale lunata â Lunate Zale Moth â (Drury, 1773),"" North American Moth Photographers Group, Mississippi Entomological Museum, Mississippi State University, for a wide array of additional photographs of this moth species and for a range map of the same go to: http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=8689"