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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 » Anagogini » Plagodis » Purple Plagodis - Hodges#6841 (Plagodis kuetzingi)

Species Plagodis kuetzingi - Purple Plagodis - Hodges#6841

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Purple Plagodis - Plagodis kuetzingi - male

6841, Plagodis kuetzingi, Purple Plagodis - Plagodis kuetzingi

6841 Purple Plagodis - Plagodis kuetzingi

Plagodis kuetzingi - Purple Plagodis - Plagodis kuetzingi

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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 Anagogini

Genus Plagodis

Species kuetzingi (Purple Plagodis - Hodges#6841)

Hodges Number

6841

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Plagodis kuetzingi (Grote, 1876)

Phylogenetic sequence # 201475

Size

wingspan about 26 mm, based on Moth Photographers Group specimen

Range

Nova Scotia to Virginia and Tennessee west to Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin

Season

adults usually fly May to July(1)

Moth Photographers Group records of May to September.

Food

Larval host plant is Fraxinus (ash trees).(1)

Life Cycle

Larva; adult

See Also

Plagodis phlogosaria

Print References

Covell, Charles V. Jr. 2005. Moths of Eastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History.(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Butterflies and Moths of North America

iNaturalist

Carolina Nature - Will Cook

Moths of North Carolina

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2005.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Matthew Roth on 22 June, 2005 - 8:59pm
Additional contributions by anitagould, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 20 April, 2025 - 3:29pm

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