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I'm on the road and don't have much access to internet, but I thought I'd upload these observations from a few nights ago of a genus near (?) and dear (???) to my heart.
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/gcwarbler/53116-hypoprepia-lichen-moths-what-a-mess
The extensive dark markings and all yellow ground color seem to point to H. cadaverosa, a species heretofore confined to the Rocky Mountain states.
I'm posting two different individuals (based on "fingerprinting of wing patterns"). I may have had more but they were moving around a lot.

the female below is a festive TB. There were other festive TBs all around, but no other species. The sand was wet from recent rains and it appears that this is what is on the back of dark TB. The female festive will be in the next submission, after the dark one left. The dark one did not look like a punctured TB to me.