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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 » Pherne » Pherne parallelia - Hodges#6950 (Pherne parallelia)

Species Pherne parallelia - Hodges#6950

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · 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 Pherne

Species parallelia (Pherne parallelia - Hodges#6950 )

Hodges Number

6950

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pherne parallelia (Packard, 1873)

Tetracis parallelia Packard, 1873

Size

Wingspan about 36 mm. (1)

Range

California. (2), (1)

Season

There are records from January, March to November. (1)

See Also

Prochoerodes truxaliata

Print References

Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough(3), 1916. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America. The Review Press, Decatur, Illinois. 3(1). plate 15, fig. 7, 8 (not 13 as stated, see text on p. 189). (4)

Holland, W.J., 1915. The Moth Book. Doubleday, Page & Company. Garden Ciy, New York. plate 45, fig. 9. (5)

Packard, A.S., 1873. Californian Phalaenidae. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 16. p. 38.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (1)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

3.	James Halliday McDunnough (1877 -1962) A biographical obituary and bibliography Douglas C. Ferguson . 1962. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 16(4): 209-228.

4.	Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America (Vols. 1-4) William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough. 1911. Decatur ILL., The Review Press.

5.	The Moth Book W. J. Holland. 1922. Doubleday, Page & Company.

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 June, 2013 - 5:15pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 14 October, 2023 - 6:42am

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