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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Larentiinae » Eupitheciini » Eupithecia » Eupithecia scabrogata - Hodges#7583 (Eupithecia scabrogata)

Species Eupithecia scabrogata - Hodges#7583

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

Eupithecia scabrogata 7583 - Eupithecia scabrogata

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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 Eupitheciini

Genus Eupithecia

Species scabrogata (Eupithecia scabrogata - Hodges#7583)

Hodges Number

7583

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eupithecia scabrogata Pearsall, 1912

Eupithecia vistata Cassino & Swett, 1922

Identification

Genitalia:

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Range

Southern CA to Cochise Co, AZ (1)

Food

Host plant: Pointleaf Manzanita, Arctostaphylos pungens in southeastern AZ. (1)

Print References

Cassino, S.E. & L.W. Swett, 1922. Some new Geometridae. The Lepidopterist. 3(11): 175 (Eupithecia vistata)

Ferris, 2018. Plate 125 (info and images of spread adult and genitalia). (1)

McDunnough, 1949: 665; 724, fig 16B (genitalia); pl 31, fig. 12 (spread adult). (2)

Pearsall, R.F. 1912. Geometridae as yet undescribed. Canadian Entomologist. 44(1): 44.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Lepidoptera of North America 14. Geometroidea: Geometridae: Larentiinae: Eupitheciini (Part) Clifford D. Ferris. 2017. Contributions of the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity Colorado State University, p.1-103.

2.	Revision of the North American species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) James H. McDunnough. 1949. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 93(8).

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 30 September, 2018 - 5:25am
Additional contributions by Sue Carnahan, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 25 December, 2024 - 1:05pm

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