Species Rindgea parcata - Hodges#6406

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 Macariini

Genus Rindgea

Species parcata (Rindgea parcata - Hodges#6406)

Hodges Number

6406

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rindgea parcata (Grossbeck, 1908)

Sciagraphia parcata Grossbeck, 1908 (1)

Size

Ferguson (2008) listed the forewing length. (2)

♂ 10-13 mm.

♀ 10-14 mm.

Identification

"This featureless, mottled gray, finely dark speckled southwestern species can be distinguished reliably from other members of its immediate complex only be examination of the genitalia." Ferguson (2008)

Range

North of the Mexican border in Arizona and New Mexico as far northward to the vicinity of Flagstaff and from Saddlerock Canyon, Grant County, New Mexico - Ferguson 2008

Food

Has been reared on desert species of Fabaceae. Adults were reared from larvae from both Mesquite and Acacia constricta. - Ferguson 2008

Print References

Ferguson, D.C., 2008. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 329; pl. 8, figs. 29-31. (2)

Grossbeck, J.A., 1908. New moths of the family Geometridae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 16: 26. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	New Moths of the Family Geometridae John A. Grossbeck. 1908. Journal of The New York Entomological Society, 16: 19-31.

2.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2, Geometroidea, Geometridae, Ennominae. Douglas C. Ferguson . 2008. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 31 August, 2008 - 6:07pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, A. Hendrickson
Last updated 17 February, 2017 - 9:43am

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