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Nemoria festaria (Hulst, 1886). [7044]
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| 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. |
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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.
Ferguson (1985) reported
festaria as occurring in a narrow band from Arizona through New
Mexico to eastern Texas. A female Nemoria specimen from Oklahoma
in the collection of the USNM with pale yellow fringes, a strong red
terminal line, white striations on the wing and very thin, almost
obsolescent am and pm lines is almost certainly festaria with
four white spots on the dorsal surface of the abdomen. The specimen is
in excellent condition. The Oklahoma moth species list records
Nemoria festaria from McIntosh, Payne and Roger Mills counties. The
USNM specimen adds a Sequoyah County record and raises the possibility
of the species occurring in neighboring Arkansas. |
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Nemoria festaria,
adult male, spread specimen shown as live moth in photo above at
right.
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Nemoria festaria,
adult female,
collection of the NMNH Smithsoninan, specimen collected Sequoyah Co.,
OK, 11-14 June 1981. |
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