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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 » Macaria » Lorquin's Angle - Hodges#6324 (Macaria lorquinaria)

Species Macaria lorquinaria - Lorquin's Angle - Hodges#6324

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Internet References

Lorquin's Angle - Macaria lorquinaria - Hodges#6324 - Macaria lorquinaria - male

Speranza lorquinaria - Macaria lorquinaria

Macaria lorquinaria? - Macaria lorquinaria - female

Macaria Lorquinaria? - Macaria lorquinaria

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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 lorquinaria (Lorquin's Angle - Hodges#6324)

Hodges Number

6324

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Elpiste lorquinaria

Macaria lorquinaria

described in 1857 by Guenee, who originally placed it in genus Tephrina

Size

wingspan about 26-27 mm, based on three Internet photos

Identification

Adult: forewing variably light gray to light brownish-yellow with 3 dark spots in subterminal area -- two together near costa and one about mid-way across wing; PM line gently wavy, and AM line straight, both lines dark with pale edge along medial side, and both lines stop before reaching costa; discal spot consists of a short oblique dash; usually some darker shading beyond PM line; hindwing paler than forewing, lightly speckled, with faint discal spot and indistinct whitish PM line

Range

California to British Columbia

Season

adults fly from May to August in California

Food

larvae feed on leaves of alder, birch, willow, Grand Fir, and Douglas-fir

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

live adult images and common name reference (Moth Photographers Group)

5 pinned adult images and collection site map (All-Leps)

presence in California; list of 35 specimen records with dates and locations (U. of California at Berkeley)

distribution in Canada [British Columbia only] (CBIF)

larval foodplants (Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum, UK)

author, date, and original genus (nearctica.com)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 22 February, 2008 - 8:44pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, Steve Morris
Last updated 29 December, 2022 - 10:10am

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