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Identification key to the Notodontidae occurring in the Dakotas

 

4C8.  (4C6)   Male eighth sternite extending posteriad for more than the width of one pit.  Forewing markings
            'crisp', transverse lines double and white filled, especially p.m. line in cells CuA2 and in the fold.
            Lochmaeus bilineata (Packard).

 

                                                 

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4C8.' Male eighth sternite not extending posteriad for the width of one pit; pits separated by less than
            the diameter of a single pit.  Fw with series of s.t. black spots only slightly sinuate.
            Heterocampa guttivitta (Walker).

 

                   

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4C8". Male eighth sternite extension posteriad subequal to the width of one pit.  Pits separated by
            the width of one pit.  Fw with series of s.t. black spots sinuate, markedly offset between
            cells M3 and CuA1.  Heterocampa biundata Walker.*

 

                   

 

 

 

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Last updated: 04/14/09

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This resource is to be cited as: Fauske, G. M.  [date of cited page]. cited page
 in Moths of North Dakota: an online identification guide. 
< http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/ndmoths/ >



Dr. Gerald M. Fauske
collection manager, NDSIRC
research specialist, NDSU
216 Hultz Hall
Fargo, ND 58105
E-Mail: Gerald.Fauske@ndsu.edu

 
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