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twig geometer - side - Phaeoura quernaria

twig geometer - side - Phaeoura quernaria
Land O' Lakes, Pasco County, Florida, USA
March 28, 2006
Size: about 25 mm
on aluminum flashing of house; I like the big fat "terminal bud"

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twig geometer - side - Phaeoura quernaria twig geometer - top - Phaeoura quernaria

seems very likely
Thanks for tracking this one down, J & J. I don't have Wagner's book but the Guide has a link to the larval account at Caterpillars of Eastern Forests. There's another species in the same tribe (Nacophorini) in Florida whose adult is shown here but it's presumably less common, and its larva might look completely different... I don't know.

Both images moved from Geometrid Moths to Oak Beauty for now.

What do you think of Oak Beauty
Phaeoura quernaria, Wagner pg 175, right down to the fringe of setae between abdominal and anal prolegs?

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