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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 » Entephria » Entephria multivagata - Hodges#7301 (Entephria multivagata)

Species Entephria multivagata - Hodges#7301

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · 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 Entephria
Species multivagata (Entephria multivagata - Hodges#7301)
Hodges Number
7301
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Entephria multivagata (Hulst, 1881)
Scotosia multivagata Hulst, 1881
Size
Hulst (1881) reported the wingspan as 1.5" (38.1 mm.).
Powell & Opler (2009) reported the forewing length as 17-20 mm. (1)
Identification
Range
Western Alberta to southern British Columbia, Oregon, south to Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. (1)
Season
The adults are most common from June to early October. (1)
Food
The larval host plant is Picea glauca (white spruce) and most likely other spruce species because Picea glauca does not occur in all of this moths range (1)
See Also
Other Entephria species are similar.


Zenophleps obscurata
Print References
Hulst, G.D., 1881. Descriptions of some new species of Geometridae. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 4(1): 27.
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, p. 225, pl. 32.13. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Moths of Canada
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Geometroidea of Canada
University of California, Berkeley
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 July, 2011 - 3:11pm
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 24 June, 2019 - 10:19am

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