Hugh,
I appreciate your helpful comments, as well as Lance's response. Seems to me that lively discussion on such matters can only prove beneficial to us moth-ers.
I tried to rediscover the reason I had included Georgia in the range and I found it. The Dalton State website indicates that a specimen has been collected in their state, so I have restored L. disposita to my list (which I know is unofficial anyway). If a separate southern form is ever identified by better lepidopterists than I am, I will be glad to update my list.
One word about the list is in order. As I worked through the MPG range maps I saw a few cases where a moth had been reported predominantly from western states, with one report from a state nearby. My normal handling of those cases has been to exclude the moth, since I considered that the eastern report may have been an erroneous identification. I also agonized over some range maps that showed a distribution suggesting that the moth might be expected to occur in our mountains. In those cases, or at least most of them, I included the moth because of the proximity of reported sites of occurrence.
Isn't this hobby fun!
Harry
