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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Emeralds (Geometrinae) » Nemoriini » Dichorda » Dichorda rectaria - Hodges#7056 (Dichorda rectaria)

Species Dichorda rectaria - Hodges#7056

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Dichorda rectaria 7056 - Dichorda rectaria

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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 Geometrinae (Emeralds)

Tribe Nemoriini

Genus Dichorda

Species rectaria (Dichorda rectaria - Hodges#7056)

Hodges Number

7056

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dichorda rectaria (Grote, 1877)

Geometra rectaria Grote, 1877

Phylogenetic Sequence # 910637

Explanation of Names

rectaria is Latin for a straight line

Numbers

Subspecies:

Dichorda rectaria cockerelli Sperry, 1939

Dichorda rectaria rectaria

Size

wingspan 27-30 mm.

Identification

Similar to Dichorda iridaria and Dichorda consequaria but lacks any whitish suffusion in the median area. (1)

Transverse lines are rather bold and fairly straight. (1)

Specimen identified by DNA Analysis:

Range

Texas to North Dakota and west to Idaho and California. (1)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Food

Larval host plant is skunkbush Rhus trilobata. (1)

See Also

Dichorda consequaria

Dichorda illustraria

Dichorda iridaria

Print References

Ferguson, D.C. 1969. A Revision of the Moths of the Subfamily Geometrinae of America North of Mexico (Insecta, Lepidoptera). (2)

Ferguson, D.C. 1985. The Moths of North America. Fascicle 18.1. Geometroidea, Geometridae (Part), Geometrinae. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Works Cited

1.	The Moths of America North of Mexico Fascicle 18.1. Geometroidea, Geometridae (Part), Geometrinae Douglas C. Ferguson . 1985. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

2.	A revision of the moths of the subfamily Geometrinae of America north of Mexico (Insecta, Lepidoptera) Douglas C. Ferguson. 1969. Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University Bulletin 29.

Contributed by Tim Loh on 21 February, 2009 - 11:02pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 25 July, 2021 - 6:17pm

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