Species Eusarca packardaria - Packard's Eusarca - Hodges#6936

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · Internet References

6936 Packard's Eusarca ??? - Eusarca packardaria - female

Tan geometrid moth - Eusarca packardaria - female

Packard's Eusarca - Eusarca packardaria - female

Moth 090416ccok - Eusarca packardaria - male

Caney Creek moth 081818 - Eusarca packardaria - male

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Geometroidea (Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths)

Family Geometridae (Geometrid Moths)

Subfamily Ennominae

Tribe Ourapterygini

Genus Eusarca

Species packardaria (Packard's Eusarca - Hodges#6936)

Hodges Number

6936

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

described in 1940 by McDunnough, who originally placed it in genus Apicia

Size

wingspan about 23 mm, based on photo by Jim Vargo at MPG

Identification

Adult: forewing light yellowish-brown with dark AM and PM lines, pointed apex, and falcate outer margin; AM line V-shaped; PM line straight except for sharp inward jog near costa; median line represented only by dark diagonal dash at costa; dark blotches sometimes present in subterminal area; hindwing similarly colored but with only a single (median) line that doesn't quite reach the costa; tiny dark discal dot on all wings (sometimes obscure or absent)

Range

North Carolina to Georgia, west to Texas and Illinois, plus a single record from California

Season

adults fly from June to October in Georgia

See Also

some individuals of Eusarca subcineraria look very similar but that species is apparently restricted to Arizona

Internet References

pinned adult image and photos of related species by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)

distribution and link to pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)

pinned adult image and collection site map showing presence in North Carolina (All-Leps)

4 Georgia records and 1 from Tennesse, with dates and locations [search on "Eusarca packardaria"] (Lepidopterists Society Season Summary, U. of Florida)

presence in Texas; list (James Gillaspy, U. of Texas)

presence in California; list of a single record with date and location (U. of California at Berkeley)

author, date, and original genus (nearctica.com)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 June, 2008 - 1:09am

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