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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 » Ourapterygini » Slant-Lines (Tetracis) » White Slant-Line - Hodges#6964 (Tetracis cachexiata)

Species Tetracis cachexiata - White Slant-Line - Hodges#6964

White Slant Line, early instar - Tetracis cachexiata

Geometridae: Tetracis cachexiata - Tetracis cachexiata

Moth on Garage Door, Perhaps Tetracis cachexiata - Tetracis cachexiata

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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 Ourapterygini

Genus Tetracis (Slant-Lines)

Species cachexiata (White Slant-Line - Hodges#6964)

Hodges Number

6964

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tetracis cachexiata Guenée, [1858]

Numbers

one of 13 species in this genus in North America

Size

Forewing length 19–26 mm.

Identification

Adult - DFW with thin straight brown transverse PM line from apex to inner margin (sometimes indistinct) discal spot absent; DHW unmarked. Underside unmaculated., FERRIS & SCHMIDT, 2010. [Randy Hardy]

Larva - yellowish to brownish twig mimic with dorsal hump on thorax (1)

Range

Nova Scotia to central British Columbia, south to northern Florida, and west to Montana and northern Colorado.

Moth Photographers Group map

Habitat

A montane and piedmont species

Season

The flight period appears to be March to September with May to July the peak. (2)

Food

many host plants for caterpillars; most are trees: pine, hemlock, spruce, fir, tamarack, arborvitae, maple, birch, hophornbeam, willow, poplar, cherry, hickory, ash, butternut, sheep laurel, oak, black locust, basswood, elm, dogwood, sweetfern, and iris.

Print References

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. plate 30, fig. 32; p. 219. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD (3)

Revision of the North American Genus Tetracis and Synonymization of Synaxis with Descriptions of Three New Species, Ferris and Schmidt, 2010 - complete coverage of this species, a .pdf file [Randy Hardy]

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Tony on 19 June, 2005 - 7:43pm
Additional contributions by anitagould, Maury Heiman, ceiseman, Randy Hardy, JoAnneRusso
Last updated 2 June, 2018 - 9:22am

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