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Greetings!
First and foremost, I LOVE your website and have referred many a fellow insect enthusiast to your site. Thank you for all that you do. Secondly, I need help to identify the flying insect in the attached photo. My hiking companions and I encountered it on the West Fork Trail of Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona (water, juniper pines, assorted wildflowers). I didn’t notice the insect on any of the surrounding flora, only on the rocks nearest the water. Any insight that you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Again, my thanks.
PCG
Dear PCG,
This is one of the Lichen Moths in the subfamily Lithosiinae. It is a pretty close match to a specimen of Lycomorpha fulgens found in Arizona that is pictured on BugGuide. From BugGuide we followed a link to the Moth Photographers Group website where there was an image of Lycomorpha fulgens as well as an image of Ptychoglene phrada, which looks similar. Sorry, we are not skilled enough to provide the exact species.
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