Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Hethemia pistasciaria - Pistachio Emerald - Hodges#7084

Pistachio Emerald - Hethemia pistasciaria Pennsylvania Moth  - Hethemia pistasciaria Hethemia pistachiaria - Hethemia pistasciaria Hethemia pistasciaria Moth to porch light  - Hethemia pistasciaria twig-mimic inchworm in a bog - Hethemia pistasciaria Pistachio Emerald Moth - Hethemia pistasciaria Hethemia pistasciaria
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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 Geometrinae (Emeralds)
Tribe Hemitheini
Genus Hethemia
Species pistasciaria (Pistachio Emerald - Hodges#7084)
Hodges Number
7084
Size
16-31mm wingspan.
Identification
Larva light green inchworm, with a thin reddish dorsal line, and reddish cleft head.

Adult, deep yellowish to grayish green when fresh, turning various yellows greens, orange, or brown. AM and PM lines dotted, white, and inconspicuous. HW squarred off but not sharply pointed.
Range
Southern Canada to Florida and Texas.
Season
adults April-July
Food
Larva eat basswood, birch, blueberry, ironwood, ninebark, willow, oak, and other woody plants.
Print References
(1)Wagner
(2)Covell
Works Cited
1.Caterpillars of Eastern North America
David L. Wagner. 2005. Princeton University Press.
2.Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America
Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2005.