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Species Macaria aemulataria - Common Angle - Hodges#6326

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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 Macariini
Genus Macaria
Species aemulataria (Common Angle - Hodges#6326)
Hodges Number
6326
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Macaria aemulataria Walker, 1861
Macaria sectomaculata Morrison, 1874
Philobia perplexata Pearsall, 1913
Philobia versitata Pearsall, 1913
Philobia aspirata Pearsall, 1913
Semiothisa perplexata
Semiothisa aspirata
Semiothisa versitata
Semiothisa aemulataria
Size
wingspan 20-22 mm, based on several Internet photos
wingspan 12 line (25.4 mm) (Walker, 1961)
wingspan 24-26 mm (Pearsall, 1913:190)
Identification
Adult: forewing falcate (having sickle-shaped indentation along outer margin near apex) with off-white to pale brown ground color; three yellowish-brown lines cross the wing; large blackish blotch along postmedial (PM) line near middle of wing is composed of five separate pieces; hindwing conspicuously pointed and similar color to forewing but has no dark markings; terminal line dashed on all wings
Larva: body green with whitish stripes; some specimens have two black spots on second abdominal segment
Range
Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Texas, north to Oregon and Alberta
Season
adults fly from May to September in Ohio; June and July in Alberta
Food
Maple and Boxelder (Acer species), Hackberry (Celtis species), Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) and possibly related.
See Also
Macaria promiscuata "is somewhat larger, generally paler than southern examples of aemulataria from the same region, and with the markings more boldly defined, especially the intense, red-brown postmedial bands on the undersides of both wings... occurs from Maryland to Florida, and west to Illinois, Arkansas and eastern Texas." (Ferguson, 1974)
Macaria notata is larger and its wings have a whiter ground color.
Print References
Ferguson, D.C., 1974. (promiscuata) A new species of the genus Semiothisa from the southeastern United States (Geometridae) The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 28: 297.
Pearsall, R.F., 1913. The Genus Philobia Duponchel, and Some Representatives in Our Fauna. (Lep., Geom.) Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 21: 190-191.
Walker, F., 1861. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera. Fifth series. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum 23: 884