{"id":1001418,"date":"2008-09-22T07:09:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001418"},"modified":"2022-03-05T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T13:03:15","slug":"moth-monday-the-penitent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/nature\/bugs\/2008\/09\/22\/moth-monday-the-penitent\/","title":{"rendered":"Moth Monday: The Penitent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s moth is #8771 in the Hodges Catalog, the Penitent Underwing Moth, <i>Catocala piatrix dionyza<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/penitent.jpg\" alt=\"Moth on tree\" title=\"The Penitent\" width=\"900\" height=\"635\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1001421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/penitent.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/penitent-150x105.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whoever named the Underwings had a vivid (and likely Victorian)  imagination. Other moths in this genus include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sweetheart<\/li>\n<li>The Girlfriend <\/li>\n<li>The Gloomy Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Charming Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Darling Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Carissima Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Connubial Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Dejected Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Graceful Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Betrothed<\/li>\n<li>The Tearful Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Sad Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Little Wife Underwing <\/li>\n<li>The Bride<\/li>\n<li>The Married Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Oldwife <\/li>\n<li>The Mother <\/li>\n<li>The Sappho Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Serene Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Youthful Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Once-married Underwing<\/li>\n<li>The Widow <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.silkmoths.bizland.com\/catpiatrix.htm'>Silk Moths<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/12300\">BugGuide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu\/species.php?hodges=8771\">Moth Photographers Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lepbarcoding.org\/species_images.php?campaign=nth_am&amp;level=family,sub_family,species&#038;type=Erebidae,Catocalinae,Catocala%20piatrix\">All-Leps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.butterfliesandmoths.org\/species?l=5302'>Butterflies and Moths of North America<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s moth is #8771 in the Hodges Catalog, the Penitent Underwing Moth, Catocala piatrix dionyza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001418"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005484,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001418\/revisions\/1005484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}