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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Emeralds (Geometrinae) » Hemitheini » Hemithea » Common Emerald - Hodges#7083 (Hemithea aestivaria)
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Hemithea aestivaria
Copyright © 2021 Peter Lane

Hemithea aestivaria
Québec (Charlesbourg), Capitale-Nationale County, Quebec, Canada
July 15, 2021
Size: WS 31 mm
Found on the brick wall near the UV trap
P-227 = 262e

46.89116, -71.29624
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Contributed by PeterLane on 16 July, 2021 - 10:13am
Last updated 21 July, 2021 - 6:12pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

This is a new data point for Quebec and the entire eastern half of North America. I'm not sure of the gender.
This species ranges across Europe (Nearctic, Palearctic) and into the Near East. (accidentally introduced into British Columbia in 1979)
… Bob Biagi, 17 July, 2021 - 2:12am login or register to post comments

Looks like...
It's probably one of the two below. The marked abdomen and checkered fringe are different from Hemithea.
Common Emerald Moth, Hemithea aestivaria: -- vs. -- Angle-winged Emerald, Chloropteryx tepperaria:
I think that yours is probably the first choice due to the wing shapes, but we should double-check it. The males are easy to separate sometimes, (by antennae) but the females are not.
… Bob Biagi, 17 July, 2021 - 1:56am login or register to post comments

 
Hemithea aestivaria
Hello !
The first mention approved by Ministry of Wildlife, Forest and Park (DNA test) was on july 9, 2017 in Beauport near Québec City and there are another 8 mentions in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures near Québec City, june and july 2020-2021: In Quebec we have now 11 records for Hemithae aestivaria
… PeterLane, 17 July, 2021 - 9:14am login or register to post comments

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