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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 » Boarmiini » Protoboarmia » Porcelain Gray - Hodges#6598 (Protoboarmia porcelaria)

Species Protoboarmia porcelaria - Porcelain Gray - Hodges#6598

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Porcelain gray moth - Protoboarmia porcelaria

November inchworm - Protoboarmia porcelaria

Porcelain Gray - Protoboarmia porcelaria - male

Porcelain Gray - Protoboarmia porcelaria

Porcelain Gray? - Protoboarmia porcelaria - female

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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 Boarmiini

Genus Protoboarmia

Species porcelaria (Porcelain Gray - Hodges#6598)

Hodges Number

6598

Other Common Names

Dash-lined Looper (larva)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Protoboarmia porcelaria (Guenée)

Orig. Comb: Boarmia porcelaria Guenée, [1858]

Size

wingspan 25–35 mm

Identification

Adult: wings pale brownish-gray crossed by dark brown/gray curving lines, at least one of which has small dentate (tooth-like) marks along its length; darkest mark on forewing is blackish blotch at costa where postmedian (PM) line begins; discal spot represented by short streak near point where antemedian (AM) line touches costa; hindwing discal spot usually present near center of wing

Specimen identified by DNA analysis:

Genitalia:

Range

e. U.S. and across Canada - Map (MPG)

Season

mostly: Apr–Oct (longer in the south) - MPG

Food

larvae feed on cedar, balsam fir, douglas-fir, hemlock, larch, pine, spruce, soapberry, birch, elm, oak, poplar,

Life Cycle

Larva, Mating pairs:

See Also

Small Engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia) is larger, lacks discal spot on both wings, and darkest mark on forewing is along PM line near center of wing (compare images of both species at CBIF)

Four-barred Gray

Print References

(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - MPG

Lepidoptera of Wayne County, Ohio - Ohio State University

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2005.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 14 February, 2005 - 7:57pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, anitagould, Mike Quinn, Nick Block, marcie oconnor, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 1 June, 2021 - 10:49pm

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