Libytheana carinenta bachmanii

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Libytheana carinenta bachmanii

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This species is considered a stray in my area. A few years ago, we had a sizeable migration and I was able to raise a small series from eggs I found on hackberry. This are a pair of ex pupa specimens, male on top and female on the bottom. They sexes are extremely similar.
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Re: Libytheana carinenta

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eurytides wrote: Mon Nov 14, 2022 7:07 am This species is considered a stray in my area. A few years ago, we had a sizeable migration and I was able to raise a small series from eggs I found on hackberry. This are a pair of ex pupa specimens, male on top and female on the bottom. They sexes are extremely similar.
We've had a mass emergence of this species in Texas this year. They're rather common in my area, but I don't think I've ever seen them in such large numbers as is the case right now -

https://today.tamu.edu/2022/09/15/snout ... ugh-texas/

By late September, I started noticing that most of the local hackberry trees were defoliated. However, I'm quite sure that was the work of Sciota celtidella, and not Libytheana carinenta -

https://citybugs.tamu.edu/2015/08/28/ha ... llas-area/
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Very nice species indeed !

Wonderful specimens; well done... 👍🎉
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There is a large swarm of them in south TX every year. If you stuck your net out the car window it would be filled up in a minute or two, just like the locust swarms shown on TV.
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Re: Libytheana carinenta bachmanii

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Here are pictures of the larva and pupa. The pupa was around 15 mm.
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