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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 » Boarmiini » Cleora » Double-lined Gray Moth - Hodges#6594 (Cleora sublunaria)

Species Cleora sublunaria - Double-lined Gray Moth - Hodges#6594

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

Double-lined Gray Moth - Cleora sublunaria

Hodges #6594 - Double-lined Gray Moth - Cleora sublunaria - male

Double-lined Gray - Cleora sublunaria - male

Geometridae on Dogwood, dorsal - Cleora sublunaria

2023-04-14-D7K_7517 - Cleora sublunaria - male

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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 Boarmiini

Genus Cleora

Species sublunaria (Double-lined Gray Moth - Hodges#6594)

Hodges Number

6594

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cleora sublunaria (Guenée, [1858]) (1)

Boarmia sublunaria Guenée, 1857

Phylogenetic sequence # 195025

Numbers

Cleora has two species in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Forewing length: (1)

♂ 13-17 mm.

♀ 14-17 mm.

Identification

Larva: Elongate, smooth, green to brown with faint dorsal and lateral stripes. Head with faint spotting forming short concentric bands. Dorsum with darker middorsal (heart) line edged with indistinct addorsal, subdorsal, and supraspiracular stripes. Second, third, and fourth abdominal segments with middorsal black spot, bounded with white laterally, near front margin of each segment. Often with dark lateral spot behind spiracle. (USGS)

Range

Southeastern US west to Texas

Season

Adults appear to be most common from February to June. Later records exist.

Food

Oaks, sweetferns and presumably others.

Life Cycle

One generation, larva present June through July

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Georgia Lepidoptera - Images of live & pinned adults (male & female)

CBIF - Image of pinned adult

Moths of Maryland - Images of live adults

USGS: Caterpillars of Eastern Forests - Image of larva with info

Lepidoptera of Eastern Tennessee - Images of live adults

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	A review of the North American moths of the genus Cleora (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) Frederick H. Rindge. 1972. American Museum Novitates 2482: 1-15.

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 24 March, 2008 - 7:11am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 14 May, 2013 - 6:47pm

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