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Species Lambdina vitraria - Hodges#6895

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Lambdina vitraria - female Lambdina vitraria - male Lambdina vitraria - male Lambdina vitraria - female Lambdina vitraria - female Larva Day 27 - Lambdina vitraria Larva Day 38 - Lambdina vitraria Larva Day 53 - Lambdina vitraria
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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 Lambdina
Species vitraria (Lambdina vitraria - Hodges#6895)
Hodges Number
6895
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lambdina vitraria (Grote, 1882)
Ellopia vitraria Grote 1882 (1)
Synonyms
Lambdina jacularia Barnes & McDunnough, 1916
Size
Grote (1883) listed a wingspan of 31 mm. (1)
Identification
Wingspan (vitraria): 31 mm (Grote, 1883).
Wingspan (jacularia): 35-38 mm (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917).
Range
Western Texas to southern Arizona and Utah.
Type locality (vitraria): New Mexico.
Type locality (jacularia): Jemez Springs, NM.
Season
The main flight period is February to April.
Food
The larvae feed on Quercus (oak) species, including Quercus gambelii. (1)
See Also
Lambdina punctata (Hulst, 1898).
Lambdina phantoma (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916).
Print References
Barnes, W. & F.H. Benjamin, 1917. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America, 3(4): 254.
Grote, A.R., 1883. On the moths collected by Prof. Snow in New Mexico. Tranactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 8: 51. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Forestryimages.org
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Works Cited
1.On the moths collected by Prof. Snow in New Mexico
A. R. Grote . 1881. Tranactions of the Kansas Academy of Science: 8: 45-57.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 December, 2014 - 8:21pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 28 June, 2022 - 11:31am

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