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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Oxyptilini » Geina » Grape Plume Moth - Hodges#6091 (Geina periscelidactylus)

Species Geina periscelidactylus - Grape Plume Moth - Hodges#6091

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

Geina periscelidactylus - Hodges#6091 - Geina periscelidactylus

Possible? Grape Plume Moth - Hodges#6091 - Geina periscelidactylus

Grape Plume Moth - Geina periscelidactylus

Grape Plume Moth - Geina periscelidactylus - male

Grapevine Plume Mith Caterpillar and Pupa - Geina periscelidactylus

Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Pterophoroidea (Plume Moths)

Family Pterophoridae (Plume Moths)

Subfamily Pterophorinae (Five-lobed Plume Moths)

Tribe Oxyptilini

Genus Geina

Species periscelidactylus (Grape Plume Moth - Hodges#6091)

Hodges Number

6091

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pterophorus periscelidactylus

Numbers

one of four species for North America

Size

wingspan approximately 16 mm

Identification

See the identification key for Oxyptilini.

See the identification section of the Geina periscelidactylus or G. sheppardi page.

Season

adults seen June-July

Food

larvae feed on grape and Virgina creeper

Life Cycle

Life cycle images:

Mated pair, larva, pupa, adult

Remarks

considered a pest of grape

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pinned adults.

Moth Photographers Group - photograph of pinned adult and related species for comparison.

barcodinglife.org (BOLD) - photograph of pinned adults, collection records.

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 4 February, 2008 - 10:45pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, treichard
Last updated 23 July, 2024 - 5:30pm

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