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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 » Caberini » Erastria » Thin-Lined Erastria - Hodges#6705 (Erastria cruentaria)

Species Erastria cruentaria - Thin-Lined Erastria - Hodges#6705

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
unknown moth - Erastria cruentaria - male Thin-lined Erastria - Erastria cruentaria Thin-Lined Erastria - Erastria cruentaria Thin-lined Erastria - Erastria cruentaria - male Butterfly - Erastria cruentaria Moth - Erastria cruentaria - female Erastria cruentaria - female Moth - Erastria cruentaria - male
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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 Caberini
Genus Erastria
Species cruentaria (Thin-Lined Erastria - Hodges#6705)
Hodges Number
6705
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Erastria cruentaria (Hübner, [1799])
Geometra cruentaria Hubner, [1796]
Size
Wingspan 27-37 mm. (1)
Identification
Spring form is marked with two black spots.

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summer form
Range
Eastern North America. (2), (3), (1), (4)
Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.
Season
The flight period is February to September. (1)
Food
Rattan Vine (Berchemia scandens).
Life Cycle
Two broods in southern areas.
See Also
Erastria decrepitaria
Erastria coloraria
Print References
Internet References
Moth Photograhers Group (1)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (5)
Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.Moths of Dallas County, Texas
3.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
4.Annotated list of Ontario Lepidoptera
J. C. E. Riotte. 1992. Royal Ontario Museum 1-208.
5.Butterflies of North America
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 June, 2009 - 12:52am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, George Smiley, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 25 April, 2020 - 11:52pm

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