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Species Lobophora nivigerata - Powdered Bigwing - Hodges#7640

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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 Larentiinae

Tribe Lobophorini

Genus Lobophora (Bigwing)

Species nivigerata (Powdered Bigwing - Hodges#7640)

Hodges Number

7640

Other Common Names

Twolined Aspen Looper (larva)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lobophora nivigerata Walker, 1862

Talledega tabulata Hulst, 1896

Lobophora montanata Packard, 1874

Cidaria nocticolata Hulst, 1881

Lobophora simsata Swett, 1920

Talledega magnoliatoidata Dyar, 1904

Philopsia canavestita Pearsall, 1906

Phylogenetic Sequence # 91a0127

Explanation of Names

Lobophora nivigerata Walker, 1862 includes as a synonyms montanata Packard, 1874 with its synonym nocticolata Hulst, 1881, simsata Swett, 1920, magnoliatoidata Dyar, 1904, and canavestita Pearsall, 1906, (Schmidt & McGuinness in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023).

Size

wingspan 21-27 mm

Identification

Adult: forewing powdery gray marked with four darker gray bands, heaviest at costa; discal spot diffuse, blackish; forewing in melanic specimens almost unmarked, dark gray; hindwing white with tiny black discal dot and faint median line

[description by Charles Covell]

Range

Newfoundland to Northwest Territories and British Columbia, plus northern states, south in the west to California and Utah, [south in the east to North Carolina - according to Covell's Guide, but the genus is not listed on this page from North Carolina State U.]

Season

adults fly from May to August

Food

larvae feed mainly on leaves of Trembling Aspen but also on Speckled Alder, White Birch, Balsam Poplar, Tamarack, and willow species

Life Cycle

Larva; larva; adult

Print References

Covell, p. 389, plate 48 #11 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Butterflies and Moths of North America

iNaturalist

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Tony on 23 March, 2005 - 8:44pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, Steve Nanz, Robin McLeod, anitagould, marcie oconnor, Robert H. Biagi
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