Catocala blandula
kah-TOCK-uh-lahm BLAND-yuh-luh
Hulst, 1884

Catocala blandula, Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts,
July 18, 2014, Barbara Spencer, tentative id by Bill Oehlke.

I have determined the specimen above to be Catocala blandula because of strong presence of dark brown scaling in basal area. It could be Catocala mira, but I would expect mira to be lighter and greyer in same area.

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TAXONOMY: Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: Noctuidae Group: Noctuinina Subfamily: Catocalinae Genus: Catocala, Schrank, 1802

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