Festive Midget Elaphria festivoides (Guenée, 1852)    Synonyms: Hodges #9681.
Kingdom Animalia   >   Phylum Arthropoda   >   Class Insecta   >   Order Lepidoptera   >   Family Noctuidae   >   Genus Elaphria   

Description:

"Adult: distinct whitish reniform spot interrupts broad black dash in median area of forewing. Lower PM line also whitish. Rest of forewing brown: lighter brown with gray mottling near base and along costa, darker beyond PM line. Hindwing distinctly gray with a white fringe. See full description by Pogue and Sullivan 2003" (BugGuide).

There are 3 records in the project database.

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A male Festive Midget in Howard Co., Maryland (5//2002). Photo by Larry Line. (MBP list)

A male Festive Midget in Howard Co., Maryland (5/2/2004). Photo by Larry Line. (MBP list)

A Festive Midget. Photo by Bob Patterson. (MBP list)


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