Observation date: July 18, 2021
Date notes: saw over the course of the week
Submitted by: flojo1986
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: Moth pair. Anisota Stigma and Anisota Peigleri
Status: Resident
Verified by: jwileyrains
Verified date: July 22, 2021
Coordinator notes: These are very interesting photos. And I agree, of course, that this is Anisota. But I think both of these are A. senatoria (although A. senatoria and A. stigma are very similar and I thought about this for some time). The smaller moth in the first photo certainly looks like A. peigleri but that sp. isn't found in the northeast. However, the female of A. senatoria looks very much like A. peigleri. - see this link: https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.php?identification=Orange-Tipped-Oakworm-Moth
Also, I haven't been able to find anything in the literature confirming that either A. senatoria or stigma interbreed with A. peigleri, so the first photo is unlikely to contain moths of different species anyway, even if the latter was found in Connecticut.
As I said, a very interesting set of photos. JRains
