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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Larentiinae » Hydriomenini » Hydriomena » Shattered Hydriomena - Hodges#7229 (Hydriomena perfracta)

Species Hydriomena perfracta - Shattered Hydriomena - Hodges#7229

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · 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 Larentiinae
Tribe Hydriomenini
Genus Hydriomena
Species perfracta (Shattered Hydriomena - Hodges#7229)
Hodges Number
7229
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hydriomena perfracta Swett, 1910
Hydriomena autumnalis var. perfracta Swett, 1910
Hydriomena marmorata Barnes & McDunnough, 1917
Hydriomena centralis McDunnough, 1952
Hydriomena monoensis McDunnough, 1952
Explanation of Names
Hydriomena perfracta Swett, 1910, originally described as a variety of autumnalis Stroms, 1783, was treated as a full species in Barnes & McDunnough (1917).
Identification
Most individuals have a wide median band, that almost looks like it was colored in with red, (pink, orange or brown) water-color paint.
Specimen identified by DNA analysis:

Range
widespread in NA (1)(2)
Type locality: Catskill Mts., NY.
Print References
Barnes & McDunnough, 1917: 18. (3) (perfracta)
Barnes & McDunnough, 1917: 19. (3) (marmorata)
Forbes, 1948: 141. (4)
McDunnough, 1954: 258-260. (5)
Swett, 1910: 279. (6)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
3.Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America (Vols. 1-4)
William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough. 1911. Decatur ILL., The Review Press.
4.The Lepidoptera of New York and neighboring states. Part II...
Forbes, W.T.M. 1948. Cornell University Agriculture Experimental Station Memoirs, 274: 1-263.
5.The Species of the Genus Hydriomena Occurring in America North of Mexico (Geometridae, Larentiinae).
McDunnough, James H. 1954. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104(3): 241-358.
6.New Hydriomena Varieties
Swett, L.W. 1910. The Canadian Entomologist. 42(8): 277-283.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 23 August, 2009 - 10:54am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, JoAnneRusso, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 23 June, 2019 - 1:56pm

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