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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Larentiinae » Eupitheciini » Eupithecia » Eupithecia niphadophilata - Hodges#7552 (Eupithecia niphadophilata)

Species Eupithecia niphadophilata - Hodges#7552

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Eupithecia niphadophilata - Hodges#7552 - Eupithecia niphadophilata - 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 Larentiinae

Tribe Eupitheciini

Genus Eupithecia

Species niphadophilata (Eupithecia niphadophilata - Hodges#7552)

Hodges Number

7552

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eupithecia niphadophilata – (Dyar, 1904)

Tephroclystia niphadophilata Dyar, 1904

Identification

one distinct spine at the base of the vesica.

Range

British Columbia, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, occurring in late summer and early fall. McDunnough, 1949

Season

Adults from late July to early September. Larvae from early May to late July (Prentice 1963). Eggs probably overwinter like those of E. interruptofasciata. Bolte, 1990.

Food

usually found on Juniperus scopulorum Sarg. and Juniperus communis L. (Prentice 1963; McGuffin 1958; CNC). Bolte, 1990

Remarks

one cannot separate adults of E. niphadophilata from those of E. interruptofasciata by external features.

Internet References

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Works Cited

1.	Revision of the North American species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) James H. McDunnough. 1949. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 93(8).

2.	Guide to the Geometridae of Canada (Lepidoptera) VI. subfamily Larentiinae, revision of the genus Eupithecia K.B. Bolte. 1990. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 122(S151): 3-253.

3.	Lepidoptera of North America 14. Geometroidea: Geometridae: Larentiinae: Eupitheciini (Part) Clifford D. Ferris. 2017. Contributions of the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity Colorado State University, p.1-103.

Contributed by JoAnneRusso on 28 April, 2020 - 2:57pm
Last updated 30 April, 2020 - 4:15pm

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