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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 » Boarmiini » Exelis » Fine-lined Gray Moth - Hodges#6478 (Exelis pyrolaria)

Species Exelis pyrolaria - Fine-lined Gray Moth - Hodges#6478

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Fine-lined Gray Moth - Hodges#6478 - Exelis pyrolaria

Gray moth with wide wings - Exelis pyrolaria

reddish-brown caterpillar - Geometrid? - Exelis pyrolaria

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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 Boarmiini

Genus Exelis

Species pyrolaria (Fine-lined Gray Moth - Hodges#6478)

Hodges Number

6478

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Exelis pyrolaria Guenée, [1858]

Phylogenetic sequence # 191950

Size

wingspan:(1)

females 22 - 25 mm.

males 19-24 mm.

Larva - 17 mm.(1)

Range

East of the Mississippi River and south of Illinois and the District of Columbia.

Moth Photographers Group mapping data should be viewed with caution.

Food

Larval hosts include:(1)

Chimaphila umbellata (pipsissewa) * USDA plant profile

Diospyros virginiana (common persimmon) * USDA plant profile

and larvae were reared on two other unknown plants.(Pergande)

Remarks

See an extended discussion of the problems of Exelis identification in Dave Barker's journal post on iNaturalist and comments on that post.

Print References

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.) 1983. Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico. (2)

Rindge, Frederick H. 1952. A revision of the geometrid genus Exelis (Lepidoptera). American Museum novitates ; no. 1582.(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - map with some distribution data, photos of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with collection map and photos of pinned adults.

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the Geometrid genus Exelis (Lepidoptera). Frederick H. Rindge. 1952. American Museum Novitates 1582.

2.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 15 July, 2005 - 7:01am
Additional contributions by anitagould, Maury Heiman, Chuck Sexton, Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 April, 2022 - 9:37am

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