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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 » Ourapterygini » Plataea » Plataea ursaria - Hodges#6923 (Plataea ursaria)

Species Plataea ursaria - Hodges#6923

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 Ennominae

Tribe Ourapterygini

Genus Plataea

Species ursaria (Plataea ursaria - Hodges#6923 )

Hodges Number

6923

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Plataea ursaria Cassino & Swett, 1922

Size

Rindge (1976) listed the forewing length. (1)

♂ 18-24 mm.

♀ 19-22 mm.

Identification

Rindge (1976) description in PDF. (1)

Most similar to P. personaria, but occurring more inland, often "montane", with "thorax above with longitudinal median crest; length of forewings 18 to 24 mm."

Distinguished from the often much paler P. californiaria by the inland localities, and then from this and diva by having a discal spot that is solid black with no central pale scales. Additionally the t.a. line tends towards acutely angled at junction of veins Cu1 and Cu2.

Range

Rindge (1976) reported California and western Nevada to Baja California. (2), (1)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Rindge (1976) reported the adults are most common from March to July with a few collected in September and October. (1)

Food

Rindge (1976) reported the host was unknown. (1)

See Also

Plataea personaria

Print References

Rindge, F., 1976. A revision of the moth genus Plataea (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). American Museum of Natural History Novitates. 2595: 14; figs. 15, 16, 19, 22, 31. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the moth genus Plataea (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) Frederick H. Rindge. 1976. American Museum of Natural History Novitates 2595: 1-27.

2.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 18 January, 2012 - 12:15pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, James Bailey
Last updated 4 February, 2021 - 12:28pm

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