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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 » Baptini » Lomographa » Gray Spring Moth - Hodges#6668 (Lomographa glomeraria)

Species Lomographa glomeraria - Gray Spring Moth - Hodges#6668

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

6668 Gray Spring Moth - Lomographa glomeraria

Geometrid caterpillar - Lomographa glomeraria

Hodges # 6668 - Lomographa glomeraria - Lomographa glomeraria

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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 Baptini

Genus Lomographa

Species glomeraria (Gray Spring Moth - Hodges#6668)

Hodges Number

6668

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lomographa glomeraria (Grote(1), 1881)

Deilinia glomeraria Grote, 1881

Synonyms

Lomographa merricki (Cassino & Swett, 1922)

Lomographa virginalis (Cassino & Swett, 1923)

Size

wingspan about 25 mm, based on MPG specimen

Identification

See Rindge, 1979 (2)

Season

The main flight period appears to be March to June. (3)

Food

Prunus species(4)

Life Cycle

Larva; adult

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1881. Descriptions of Geometridae, chiefly collected by Mr. G.R. Pilate. Papilio, 1: 40-42.

Grote, A.R. 1881. New Noctuidae, with list of species of Perigrapha. The Canadian Entomologist, 13: 134.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	A Revision of the North American Moths of the Genus Lomographa (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) Frederick H. Rindge. 1979. American Museum Novitates 2673: 1-18.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Tony on 7 May, 2005 - 11:23am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, anitagould, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor
Last updated 7 May, 2018 - 7:54am

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