Nemoria festaria

Nemoria festaria (Hulst, 1886). [7044]


Nemoria festaria, adult male, collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH). Specimen collected Cave Creek RA, Chiricahua Mountains, Coronado Nat. Forest. Cochise Co., AZ, 11-13 April 1990.	Nemoria festaria, live adult male moth. Collected Coronado NF, Pena Blanca canyon, Santa Cruz Co., AZ, 03-Aug-2006.
Nemoria festaria is a southwestern species characterized by particularly thin white am and pm lines on a finely striated green wing. A red terminal line is present and the fringes are commonly checkered with red-pink markings at the end of each vein. The Arizona specimens pictured here both show the presence of a well developed white abdominal spot on the A2 segment, with the resulting pattern of 4 or 5 contiguous abdominal spots. This is in contrast to the pattern on many other Nemoria species such as Nemoria obliqua where the spot is missing or only very weakly developed on the second abdominal segment. Ferguson (1985) reports that the second abdominal segment spot is frequently present in Arizona spceimens but may be missing from Texas specimens.
Nemoria festaria, adult male, spread specimen shown as live moth in photo above at right.