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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 » Macariini » Rindgea » Rindgea hypaethrata - Hodges#6417 (Rindgea hypaethrata)

Species Rindgea hypaethrata - Hodges#6417

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

Digrammia hypaethrata - Rindgea hypaethrata

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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 Macariini

Genus Rindgea

Species hypaethrata (Rindgea hypaethrata - Hodges#6417)

Hodges Number

6417

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rindgea hypaethrata (Grote(1), 1881)

Semiothisa hypaethrata Grote, 1881

Size

Ferguson (2008) reported the forewing length. (2)

♂ 13-15 mm.

♀ 12-15 mm.

Identification

Range

Ferguson (2008) reported the range to include southern Arizona, southern New Mexico and western Texas; Chihuahua, Sonora, Puebla, southern and northern Baja California in Mexico. (2)

Season

Ferguson (2008) reported adults the months of March to May, August, September and November. (2)

There are early records of January and February posted on Bug Guide.

Food

Ferguson (2008) reported the larvae feed on Prosopis sp. (mesquite).(2)

See Also

Hemeroplanis incusalis

Print References

Ferguson, D.C., 2008. The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 17.2. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p.343, pl.8.58-60. (2)

Grote, A.R., 1881. New moths from Arizona, with remarks on Catocala and Heliothis. Papilio 1(9): 167.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (4)

Works Cited

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

2.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2, Geometroidea, Geometridae, Ennominae. Douglas C. Ferguson . 2008. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 21 January, 2008 - 4:46pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 13 November, 2013 - 4:15pm

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