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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Swallowtail Moths (Uraniidae) » Scoopwing Moths (Epipleminae)

Subfamily Epipleminae - Scoopwing Moths

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Print References · Internet References

Brown Scoopwing Moth - Calledapteryx dryopterata

Brown Scoopwing - Calledapteryx dryopterata

Calledapteryx dryopterata - Brown Scoopwing - Hodges#7653 ? - Calledapteryx dryopterata

Uraniidae or Geometridae - Callizzia certiorata

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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 Uraniidae (Swallowtail Moths)

Subfamily Epipleminae (Scoopwing Moths)

Other Common Names

Crenulate Moths

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

formerly given family status (Epiplemidae); now treated as a subfamily of Uraniidae

Numbers

8 species in 7 genera in North America listed at All-Leps

one of 2 subfamilies in this family in North America; the other subfamily (Uraniinae) is represented in North America by a single species, Urania fulgens, which occurs in Central America, and strays north to southern Texas

Identification

adults have pleated or crenulate hindwings, a distinctive feature

larvae have five pairs of prolegs, which distinguishes them from larvae of Geometridae (two pairs of prolegs)

Remarks

Listed as subfamily of Uraniidae in The Geometroidea of Canada which follows the classification in Malcolm Scoble's Geometrid Moths of the World, 1999.

Print References

Geometrid Moths of the World Malcolm Scoble et al (1999)

Internet References

pinned adult images of the two species occurring in Canada (CBIF)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 5 April, 2005 - 7:58pm
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor
Last updated 23 February, 2016 - 8:33am

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