Parthenice Tiger Moth -- Hodges #8196
Grammia parthenice
Bugguide.net says this about the genus name: "Author of Grammia was Rambur, 1866. Latin grammus is a mark, so perhaps grammia means 'marked.' Grammus is also a mountain range, or mountain, in Macedonia. The markings on the wings are rather peaked like a mountain range -- perhaps that is the reference as well. Likewise, perhaps there is a relationship to 'grammar,' from grammatical-like markings on wings? At any rate, the genus name seems to refer to the strong markings on the wings."
When it floated to the ground beneath thistle, I followed, lifted some dead twigs and leaves, and found him, wings closed. A momentary hop onto my fingers resulted in the open-wing view, revealing a compound-complex sentence asserting tiger, and zebra, and canary, and sunset, burning bright.
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