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Many-spotted Angle Moth

Many-spotted Angle Moth, Hodges #6395, Digrammia irrorata
San Joaquin Wildlife Refuge, 2008-04-13

Gray speckled moth on wall


This is one of the geometers. It’s medium sized as moths go, maybe 1.5 centimeters from wingtip to wingtip. It was easily spotted on the outside of the restroom building when I arrived about 7:30 AM this morning.

There are maybe 10,000 species of moths in the United States. Not all of them have common names. This one from San Joaquin Wildlife refuge this morning has been tentatively ID’d as Digrammia irrorata, #6395 in the Hodges catalog. (Ronald W. Hodges, Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico, 1983).

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One Response to “Many-spotted Angle Moth”

  1. Mokka mit Schlag » Moth Monday: Many-spotted Angle Moth Says:
    March 23rd, 2009 at 8:42 AM

    […] was easily spotted on the door of the restroom building when I walked by about AM in the morning. I last saw one of these at San Joaquin a little less than a year […]

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