WWW MPG website only

Digital Guide to Moth Identification

Noctuidae 931703 – 11216   Grotella blanca Barnes, 1904

Photographs are the copyrighted property of each photographer listed. Contact individual photographers for permission to use for any purpose.

© Charles W. Melton Large Map & Chart Report Errors About Maps

Distribution: Southern CA, AZ, CO - R.W. Poole. Description/ Field Marks: Forewing is pure white without cream-white tinge, a few small black dots representing am. and pm. lines; hindwing has less grey-brown diffusion than in G. dis and more contrasting pm. line - Poole. Similar Species: G. dis forewing is pure white without cream-white tinge, a few small black dots representing am. and pm. lines; hindwing is grey-brown with pm. line showing little contrast - Poole. G. parvipuncta forewing has cream-white tinge, a few small black dots representing am. and pm. lines faint to oblsolete; hind wing typically is evenly gray - Poole. Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: blanca Barnes, 1904 (Grotella) - MONA 1983: 11216

References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.)

Barcode of Life (BOLD) Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at The Noctuidae of North America by Robert W. Poole (Nearctica.com) - archived page access (go to a year prior to 2020 and select a blue circled date from the calendar).

25mm - LG – © Canadian Nat'l. Coll.

Moth Photographers Group  at the  Mississippi Entomological Museum  at the  Mississippi State University

Send suggestions, or submit photographs to Webmaster — Moth Photographers Group

Database design and scripting support provided by Mike Boone