[ncsc-moths] Lois & Ken's Moth ( L.petcula )
- From: "Paul" <pandlscharf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ncsc-moths" <ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:51:11 -0500
I have lost Ken's original photo ( Sorry) , but I had Lois' photo from BAMONA.
I sent it to the expert who's doing the Bar-coding on Lithophanes and asked him
if he could take a minute and look at Lois' photo on the BAMONA site. Here is
his answer :
" I looked at the Lithophane and it seems like a normal patefacta to me.
L. petulca is dull, grey brown not the warm straw color of patefacta. All mine
( patefacta) are from the mountains but your specimens are all I have seen from
the piedmont. Aiken is coastal plain and very, very likely only to have
patefacta in that group."
I'm just a conduit of this info as I have only been into moths for about 18
months and don't consider myself all that knowledgeable , but I believe BAMONA
might have also been a little hasty in their verification. Paul
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