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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

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Print References · 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 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 A.W. Thomas 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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