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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Drepanoidea » Hooktip & False Owlet Moths (Drepanidae) » Hooktip Moths (Drepaninae) » Eudeilinia » Northern Eudeilinia - Hodges#6253 (Eudeilinia herminiata)

Species Eudeilinia herminiata - Northern Eudeilinia - Hodges#6253

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Internet References
Northern Eudeilinea - Eudeilinia herminiata Northern Eudeilinia? - Eudeilinia herminiata - female Northern Eudeilinia - Eudeilinia herminiata Northern Eudeilinia - Hodges#6253 - Eudeilinia herminiata moth (geometrid?), unknown sp. - Eudeilinia herminiata moth (geometrid?), unknown sp. - Eudeilinia herminiata moth (geometrid?), unknown sp. - Eudeilinia herminiata Northern Eudeilinia - Eudeilinia herminiata
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Drepanoidea
Family Drepanidae (Hooktip & False Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Drepaninae (Hooktip Moths)
Genus Eudeilinia
Species herminiata (Northern Eudeilinia - Hodges#6253)
Hodges Number
6253
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
genus often misspelled Eudeilinea
Numbers
one of two species in the genus in North America
Size
wingspan 25-30 mm
Identification
wings white with (or without) faint gray, brown, or orange antemedial and postmedial dashed lines crossing the forewings and continuing onto the hindwings; body shorter and thicker than similar-appearing species of geometrid moths; labial palps black; dark shading on forelegs; antennae simple in both sexes, which are alike
Range
British Columbia to Newfoundland, south to Florida, west to Texas (absent from US southwest?)
Habitat
deciduous woods and wood edges
Season
adults fly from May to August
Food
larvae feed on dogwood (Cornus spp.)
Life Cycle
one generation per year
See Also
geometer moths in the genera Protitame and Cabera.
Internet References
pinned adult image plus common name reference, description, distribution, biology, etc. (G.G. Anweiler, U. of Alberta)
adult images plus description, larval food plant, and flight season (Lynn Scott, Ontario)
pinned adult image (CBIF)
pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 2 August, 2005 - 8:46pm
Additional contributions by anitagould
Last updated 7 March, 2006 - 12:37pm

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