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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
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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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