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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Bistonini » Cochisea » Cochisea rigidaria - Hodges#6642 (Cochisea rigidaria)

Species Cochisea rigidaria - Hodges#6642

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

Light Gray Fuzzy Moth - Cochisea rigidaria

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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 Bistonini

Genus Cochisea

Species rigidaria (Cochisea rigidaria - Hodges#6642)

Hodges Number

6642

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cochisea rigidaria Barnes & McDunnough, 1916 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 196250

Size

Wingspan 38-44 mm. (1)

Forewing length: ♂ 17-20 mm, ♀ 19-21 mm. (2)

Identification

Adult - original description and Ringe's redescription available in Print References. (1), (2)

Range

Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. (2)

Season

Adults fly from late August into November. (2)

Print References

Barnes, Wm. & J.H. McDunnough 1916. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America, 3(1): 29-30, pl.2, f.2,3 (1)

Rindge, F.H. 1975. A revision of the New World Bistonini, (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). American Museum of Natural History, 156(2): 91-93 (PDF)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (4)

BOLD Systems (5)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	A revision of the New World Bistonini, (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Frederick H. Rindge. 1975. American Museum of Natural History 156(2):.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 19 October, 2005 - 7:49am
Additional contributions by anitagould, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 23 September, 2014 - 3:30pm

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