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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Hooktip and False Owlet Moths (Drepanoidea) » Hooktip and False Owlet Moths (Drepanidae) » Hooktip Moths (Drepaninae) » Eudeilinia » Northern Eudeilinia - Hodges#6253 (Eudeilinia herminiata)

Species Eudeilinia herminiata - Northern Eudeilinia - Hodges#6253

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

Northern Eudeilinia - Eudeilinia herminiata

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Drepanoidea (Hooktip and False Owlet Moths)

Family Drepanidae (Hooktip and False Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Drepaninae (Hooktip Moths)

Genus Eudeilinia

Species herminiata (Northern Eudeilinia - Hodges#6253)

Hodges Number

6253

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eudeilinia herminiata (Guenée, 1857)

Corycia hermineata Guenée, 1857

genus has been misspelled Eudeilinea

Numbers

one of two species in the genus in North America

Size

wingspan 25-30 mm

Identification

wings white with (or without) faint gray, brown, or orange antemedial and postmedial dashed lines crossing the forewings and continuing onto the hindwings; body shorter and thicker than similar-appearing species of geometrid moths; labial palps black; dark shading on forelegs; antennae simple in both sexes, which are alike

Range

British Columbia to Newfoundland, south to Florida, west to Texas (absent from US southwest?)

Habitat

Deciduous woods and wood edges.

Season

The flight period is April to September with June and July the peak. (1)

Food

The larvae feed on Cornus spp. (dogwood).

Life Cycle

One generation per year.

See Also

Eudeilinia luteifera - Southern Eudeilinea Moth

Some Protitame and Cabera species can be confusing.

Print References

Boisduval & Guenée. 1857. Hist. Nat. Ins., Spec. Gén. Lépid. 10: 58.

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (1)

Moth Photographers Group (1)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)

E. H. Strickland Museum

Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility

Lynn Scott’s Lepidoptera

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 2 August, 2005 - 8:46pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Tony-2, anitagould, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, marcie oconnor
Last updated 14 August, 2019 - 9:33am

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