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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 » Nemoria » Nemoria saturiba - Hodges#7034 (Nemoria saturiba)

Species Nemoria saturiba - Hodges#7034

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

Green moth with red border - Nemoria saturiba - male

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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 Nemoria

Species saturiba (Nemoria saturiba - Hodges#7034)

Hodges Number

7034

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Nemoria saturiba Ferguson, 1969 (1), (70)

Phylogenetic sequence # 206775

Size

wingspan: 20mm (2)

Identification

Original description online: (70)

Note dark red spot on abdomen--not white, as in most other members of the genus (comments here, Friends Central)

Range

Southeastern united States. (2), (3), (4)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Life Cycle

Larvae reported on Sweetgum, Liquidambar styraciflua.

Print References

Ferguson, 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. no. 29, p. (70). (1)

Ferguson, D.C. 1985. The Moths of North America. Fascicle 18.1 Geometroidea, Geometridae (Part), Geometrinae. (5)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Friends' Central School Lepidoptera Research

friendscentral.org

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	South Carolina Moth Species

4.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

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

Contributed by Mike Boone on 28 February, 2007 - 9:03pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Maury Heiman
Last updated 10 March, 2013 - 4:09pm

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