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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 » Nacophorini » Aethaloida » Aethaloida packardaria - Hodges#6774 (Aethaloida packardaria)

Species Aethaloida packardaria - Hodges#6774

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

Boarmiini? - Aethaloida packardaria - female

Aethaloida packardaria caterpillar - Aethaloida packardaria - male

Aethaloida packardaria moth - Aethaloida packardaria - male

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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 Nacophorini

Genus Aethaloida

Species packardaria (Aethaloida packardaria - Hodges#6774)

Hodges Number

6774

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Aethaloida packardaria (Hulst, 1888)

Hulstina packardaria Hulst, 1888

Phylogenetic sequence # 199775

Size

Forewing length 13-14 mm. (1)

Identification

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (2)

Range

Oregon to California. (1)

Food

Comstock (1937) collected larvae, and reared to adults on: (3)

Ceanothus L.

Adenostoma Hook. & Arn.

Print References

Comstock, J.A. 1937. Miscellaneous notes on western Lepidoptera. Bulletin of The Southern California Academy of Sciences 36(3): 114-115, pl.47. (3)

(4)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. p. 214, pl. 29.23. (1)

Internet References

MPG

Macromoths of Northwest Forests and Woodlands

Caterpillars of Pacific Northwest Forests and Woodlands

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

3.	Miscellaneous notes on western Lepidoptera John A. Comstock. 1937. Bulletin of The Southern California Academy of Sciences 36:111-124.

4.	Lepidoptera of the Pacific Northwest: Caterpillars and Adults Miller & Hammond. 2003. USDA.

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 1 May, 2010 - 6:14pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 May, 2013 - 2:51pm

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