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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 » Macariini » Digrammia » Digrammia ordinata - Hodges#6358 (Digrammia ordinata)

Species Digrammia ordinata - Hodges#6358

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

Digrammia ordinata? - Digrammia ordinata

Geometridae, dorsal, on Lead plant - Digrammia ordinata

Geometridae, dorsal - Digrammia ordinata

Geometridae, ventral - Digrammia ordinata

Geometridae, spent pupa - Digrammia ordinata

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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 Macariini

Genus Digrammia

Species ordinata (Digrammia ordinata - Hodges#6358)

Hodges Number

6358

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Digrammia ordinata Walker, 1862

Phylogenetic sequence # 188825

Formerly Semiothisa ordinata

Size

Wingspan is 21-25 mm

Identification

Forewing light speckled brown, crossed by 3 darker yellowish-brown lines; hindwing similar but with only 2 dark lines; no other markings present

Range

East coast from New Brunswick to Florida, west to Mississippi also collected in British Colombia

Season

The flight period is May to August.

Food

Leadplant

Life Cycle

larva; larva; adult; spent pupa

See Also

Digrammia sublacteolata is very similar but is generally paler and can have ochreous shading of the PM line. (1)

Faint-spotted Angle - Digrammia ocellinata

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

1.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2, Geometroidea, Geometridae, Ennominae. Douglas C. Ferguson . 2008. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 8 July, 2005 - 6:47am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, anitagould, marcie oconnor, Fyn Kynd, JoAnneRusso, Robert H. Biagi, Steve Morris
Last updated 16 August, 2024 - 10:21am

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