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Nemoria caerulescens Prout, 1912. [7042]
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| Nemoria caerulescens,
adult male. Collection of Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH). Specimen collected 30
July 1989, Rio Arriba Co, NM. |
Nemoria caerulescens, adult
female. Collection
of Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia (ANSP). Specimen collected
01 August 1918,
Jemez Mountains, NM. |
| Nemoria caerulescens is a
southwestern species with a patchy distribution in Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona and Colorado. Paul Opler reported it was known from fewer than
five locations in the southwest [Rare and Sensitive Insects of Mesa
Verde National Park, Colorado, 2000]. Ferguson (1985) reported
caerulescens had been collected from the Davis and Guadalupe
Moutnains in West Texas, the Sangre de Cristos in New Mexico, the
Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona and Estes Park, Colorado.
Nemoria caerulescens has a bluish
green wing color that distinguishes it from the even grass green shade
of Nemoria obliqua. It is also distinctly striated with broad
white bands that are particularly noticeable in the space between the pm
lines and the wing margin. The am and pm lines may be especially
wide, though this is not always the case. The abdomen is usually marked
with several small but distinct white spots that do not have the red or
brown encircling coloration often found on other species. The white
spots may occasionally have a very narrow band of yellow marginal
scales, but these are often visible only with a microscope. Wing fringes
are white, with an outer pinkish shade when the entire fringe length is
present and fresh. Ferguson (1985) reported that a red terminal
line is typically absent but may be present in some specimens.
Ferguson (1985) reported the early stages as unknown; we successfully
reared Nemoria caerulescens larvae from a female collected in
June, 2007 in Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico. |
Nemoria caerulescens female, reared ex ovum; parent female
collected Rio Arriba Co., NM, June 2007. |
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