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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 » Ourapterygini » Caripeta » Caripeta macularia - Hodges#6874 (Caripeta macularia)

Species Caripeta macularia - Hodges#6874

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

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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 Caripeta

Species macularia (Caripeta macularia - Hodges#6874)

Hodges Number

6874

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Caripeta macularia (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916)

Gonodontis macularia Barnes and McDunnough, 1916 (1)

Size

Wingspan: 37 to 38 mm (1), (2).

Identification

See original description in print references below (1).

Range

Records from Arizona and New Mexico (2).

Season

Records from June to August (2).

Food

Comstock (1957) reported oak (Quercus spp.) as a host (3).

Life Cycle

Life history (including descriptions of the egg, larvae, and pupa) can be found in Comstock (1957) (3).

Print References

Barnes, W.; McDunnough, J.H. 1916. "New Species and Varieties of North American Lepidoptera". Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 3: 32, fig. 16 (1).

Comstock, J.A. 1957. "Life histories of two southern Arizona moths of the genus Caripeta". Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 56(2): 88-96 (3).

Internet References

Species page at Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)

Species page at The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America (Vols. 1-4) William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough. 1911. Decatur ILL., The Review Press.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Life histories of two southern Arizona moths of the genus Caripeta John Adams Comstock. 1957. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 56(2): 88-96.

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 16 July, 2017 - 9:53pm
Last updated 14 December, 2017 - 9:50pm

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