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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Sterrhinae » Sterrhini » Lobocleta » Lobocleta peralbata - Hodges#7100 (Lobocleta peralbata)

Species Lobocleta peralbata - Hodges#7100

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References

Unidentified Noctuidae - Lobocleta peralbata

White wavy-lined Moth - Lobocleta peralbata - female

Lobocleta peralbata? - Lobocleta peralbata

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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 Sterrhinae

Tribe Sterrhini

Genus Lobocleta

Species peralbata (Lobocleta peralbata - Hodges#7100)

Hodges Number

7100

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lobocleta peralbata (Packard, 1873)

Acidalia peralbata Packard, 1873

Idaea peralbata

Acidalia longipennata Packard, 1873

phylogenetic Sequence # 208475

Size

Wingspan about 11-20 mm.

Identification

Adult: forewing white with extensive brown speckling; AM, median, and PM lines dark yellow, wavy; dark discal dot between AM and median lines; hindwing similar but lacks AM line; dark dashed terminal line and white fringe on both wings.

Specimen identified by DNA analysis:

Range

Arizona to Florida, north to North Carolina.

Life Cycle

Larva:

See Also

Idaea tacturata has less dark speckling on wings.

Idaea obfusaria has more dark shading adjacent to lines on wings.

Species of Scopula have either darker lines, no discal spots, and/or more lines on the hindwing.

Fragile White Carpet Moth - Hydrelia albifera - (Subfamily Larentiinae)

For ID details, check out the forum article here: Conflation of two white Geometrids

Print References

Packard, A. S. 1873. Description of new North American Phalaenidae. Annual Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. 1872: 70

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

live adult image from Texas, plus date (Larry Line, Maryland)

pinned adult image plus date and location (Bruce Walsh, Moths of Southeastern Arizona)

pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)

presence in Florida; list (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 23 January, 2008 - 12:38am
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 23 July, 2021 - 12:27am

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