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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 » Ennomini » Ennomos » Elm Spanworm - Hodges#6798 (Ennomos subsignaria)
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Snowy Geometer Moth - Ennomos subsignaria - male
Copyright © 2008 Gary Kessler

Snowy Geometer Moth - Ennomos subsignaria - Male
Angelica, Allegany County, New York, USA
August 22, 2007
This moth has been pestering me for an ID for almost a year now, off and on. Closest I could come so far is 6798 -- Elm Spanworm Moth -- Ennomos subsignaria. Does anyone have any thoughts regarding this moths ID??

Gary
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Contributed by Gary Kessler on 16 June, 2008 - 7:55am
Last updated 19 December, 2017 - 2:13pm

Moved
Moved from Geometrid Moths.

The flight date and the large bipectinate antennae and the angled outer margin of the FW are what I identified by.
… A. Hendrickson, 2 February, 2016 - 10:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… John F. Carr, 21 March, 2009 - 9:30am login or register to post comments

Snowy Geometer....
....the Elm Spanworm has a completely different wing. Not rounded, but angles.
… Danny Mims, 16 June, 2008 - 3:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
very much Danny. The Elm Spanworm just didn't seem to fit. Why I couldn't ID this moth will remain one of the secrets of the universe but suspect just plan old age. 8-)

Thanks again,
Gary
… Gary Kessler, 16 June, 2008 - 10:54pm login or register to post comments

 
well Gary
I skimmed through the entire set of 151 thumbnail pages for the superfamily geometroidea to see if I could find a match or something even close... (see what happens when the school year is over and I have time to kill? I perseverate on moths).

I suppose I should have known that the answer to the mystery of the universe would be out of my reach.
… Nina, 18 June, 2008 - 7:28am login or register to post comments

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