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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

Subfamily Ennominae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
What Moth - Iridopsis ephyraria - male 6362 Curve-lined Angle - Digrammia continuata Caterpillar - Phaeoura quernaria Spotted Wing Moth - Patalene olyzonaria - male Mellilla xanthometata - male Iridopsis larvaria Horned spanworm - Nematocampa resistaria Geometridae - Lomographa elsinora
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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
Explanation of Names
From they type genus Ennomos, Greek meaning "lawful, just." (1)
Numbers
Contains about half of the world's known species of Geometridae. 751 N. American species.
Identification
The lack of an M2 vein in the hindwing is the distinguishing characteristic of the subfamily (Matthew Barnes, Moths of the Grenadines)
Remarks
Many are gray, but colors vary.
Print References
(2)
Works Cited
1.An accentuated list of the British Lepidoptera, with hints on the derivation of the names.
Anonymous. 1858. The Entomological Societies of Oxford and Cambridge.
2.Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths
Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 5 April, 2005 - 5:53pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Randy Hardy
Last updated 17 July, 2014 - 10:45am

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