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Photo #27753: Paratalanta cultralis

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Paratalanta cultralis

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Base gallery. Upperside. Alive insect.

Photo: Yuri Semejkin. Image without retouching at the website. Identified by: Irina Nikulina. Tentative identification

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2013-08-04 00:00:00, Vladivostok, Akademgorodok

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17.12.2014 14:51, Alexandr Zhakov Corrected data.

Not identified → Paratalanta cultralis / Tentatively identified / Irina Nikulina.

23.02.2014 13:05, Yuri Semejkin

I had the genus signed in the original file (identified by V. A. Kirpichnikova) whilst the very species is indeed quite tough to ID. At any rate according to Kirpichnikova only genus can be IDed and the species requires genitalia examination.

23.02.2014 12:44, Irina Nikulina

This is Paratalanta sp., tough to ID the very species. Three of 5 Primorye species look very similar. I lean to Paratalanta cultralis (ssp.P.c. amurensis (Romanoff, 1887)), two others are taiwanensis и ussurialis. Here all three http://www.jpmoth.org/Crambidae/Pyraustinae/Paratalanta.html (Yury, here as in Herpetogramma case we should neither wait for any truth ()

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