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Species Idaea demissaria - Red-Bordered Wave Moth - Hodges#7114

Classification · Hodges Number · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Geometroidea
Family Geometridae (Geometrid Moths)
Subfamily Sterrhinae
Tribe Sterrhini
Genus Idaea
Species demissaria (Red-Bordered Wave Moth - Hodges#7114)
Hodges Number
7114
Size
wingspan 14-19 mm (1)
Identification
Adult: wings tan with reddish to brown lines and shading at margins, if present; AM and median lines diffuse, sometimes absent; PM line curves outward except near anal angle; sometimes the only line; fringe red (1)
Range
New Hampshire and southern Quebec to Florida, west to Texas and Nebraska; also occurs in the west from British Columbia to California, inland at least to Utah
Season
adults fly April-October
Food
unrecorded; probably a variety of low plants (1)
Print References
Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, Moths of Western North America, Pl. 31.27f; p. 222.
Covell, p. 376, plate 46 #16 (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pinned adults.
Maryland Moths adult images (Larry Line, Maryland)
presence in California; list (U. of California at Berkeley)
presence in Utah; list (Joel Johnson, Utah Lepidopterists Society)
distribution in Canada list of provinces (CBIF)
Works Cited
1.Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America
By Charles V. Covell, Jr.
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 5 August, 2006 - 3:21am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Robin McLeod, Maury Heiman
Last updated 28 April, 2010 - 4:45pm

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