Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Lycia

caterpillar - Lycia ypsilon Colorful caterpillar - Lycia ypsilon Unknown Caterpillar - Lycia ursaria What is this? - Lycia rachelae - female Lycia ypsilon - male Lycia ursaria Geometer cat - Lycia Geometridae, Woolly Gray Moth, lateral - Lycia ypsilon - male
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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 Bistonini
Genus Lycia
Numbers
3 species in North America
2 species in Canada (CBIF)
Range
Canada and northern US
Season
adults fly from March to June
Food
larvae feed on the leaves of apple and other trees
Print References
Rindge, Frederick H. 1975. A revision of the New World Bistonini, (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 156, article 2.(1)
Internet References
pinned adult images of both species occurring in Canada (CBIF)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the New World Bistonini, (Lepidoptera, Geometridae).
Frederick H. Rindge. 1975. American Museum of Natural History 156(2):.