Species Macaria minorata - Minor Angle - Hodges#6340

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

6340 – Macaria minorata – Minor Angle - Macaria minorata

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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 Macaria

Species minorata (Minor Angle - Hodges#6340)

Hodges Number

6340

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Macaria minorata Packard, 1873

Semiothisa minorata (Packard, 1873)

Size

Caterpillar - up to 20 mm

Identification

Caterpillar - green body with marked head, frosted dorsum, and obvious pale stripes. Green head with lobes streaked with dark green (with light green reticulation) and reddish brown; streak on lobes with white borders (extensions of subdorsal and spiracular stripes); greenish thoracic legs, increasingly brown toward tip. Dark green middorsal stripe; bluish white dusting on dorsum; wide, white subdorsal stripe with dark green area below. Broad, bluish white spiracular stripe.

Food

Larval host is eastern white pine; rarely jack, pitch, and red pines

Life Cycle

One to two generations. Pupa overwinters in soil or debris. Mature caterpillar present from July to October

Remarks

The mature caterpillar of the Minor Angle is the smallest species of Macaria on pine. Among the species of Macaria on eastern white pine, the minor angle has the greatest amount of whitish dusting on the dorsum

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group(1)

BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (2)

Bugwood Wiki - Larva information including photo of caterpillar

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by tom murray on 22 January, 2008 - 9:25pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Chuck Sexton, Randy Hardy, Fyn Kynd
Last updated 22 April, 2020 - 9:36pm

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