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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Emeralds (Geometrinae) » Nemoriini » Chlorosea » Chlorosea roseitacta - Hodges#7015 (Chlorosea roseitacta)

Species Chlorosea roseitacta - Hodges#7015

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

green geometrid - Chlorosea roseitacta - female

Chlorosea roseitacta - Chlorosea roseitacta

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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 Geometrinae (Emeralds)

Tribe Nemoriini

Genus Chlorosea

Species roseitacta (Chlorosea roseitacta - Hodges#7015)

Hodges Number

7015

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chlorosea roseitacta Prout, 1912

Size

Ferguson (1985) reported the forewing length. (1)

♂ 14-16.5 mm

♀ 16.5-18.5 mm.

Identification

The deep green color, and the narrow red border on the inner margin of the hindwing is distinctive. (1)

Range

Arizona and Utah to western Texas and Colorado. (2), (1)

Season

The adults are most common from June to October. (1)

Print References

Ferguson, D.C., 1969. A revision of the moths of the subfamily Geometrinae of America north of Mexico (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 29: 26. (3)

Ferguson, D.C., 1985. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 18.1, p. 68; pl. 1.13-15. (1)

Prout, 1912. Genera Insectorum, 129: 116.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Friends' Central School Lepidoptera Research

Works Cited

1.	The Moths of America North of Mexico Fascicle 18.1. Geometroidea, Geometridae (Part), Geometrinae Douglas C. Ferguson . 1985. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	A revision of the moths of the subfamily Geometrinae of America north of Mexico (Insecta, Lepidoptera) Douglas C. Ferguson. 1969. Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University Bulletin 29.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 15 July, 2013 - 7:44pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 2:33pm

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