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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 » Ourapterygini » Neoterpes » Neoterpes ephelidaria - Hodges#6859 (Neoterpes ephelidaria)

Species Neoterpes ephelidaria - Hodges#6859

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

Neoterpes ephelidaria 19 day old larva - Neoterpes ephelidaria

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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 Ourapterygini

Genus Neoterpes

Species ephelidaria (Neoterpes ephelidaria - Hodges#6859)

Hodges Number

6859

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Neoterpes ephelidaria (Hulst, 1886)

Heterolocha ephelidaria Hulst, 1886

Neoterpes ephelidaria var. kunzei Hulst, 1898

* phylogenetic sequence #201925

Explanation of Names

Perhaps from Latin ephelid meaning freckled.

Size

Larva to 22 mm. (1)

Pupa 13 mm. (1)

Identification

Specimens identified by DNA analysis:

Range

MPG records indicate all of California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. (2)

Food

Larvae have been found and reared on southwestern pricklypoppy (Argemone pleiacantha, Papaveraceae) and flatbud pricklypoppy (Argemone munita) (Comstock & Dammers; Goeden & Ricker; BugGuide records).

Life Cycle

Pupate at soil surface in a loose silken cocoon. (1)

Print References

Comstock, J.A & C.M. Dammers 1942. Notes on the life histories of two California moths. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 41(1): 44-47

Goeden, R.D. & D.W. Ricker 1985. Prickly Poppies, Argemone corymbosa and A. munita, in Southern California—Native Weeds Attacked by Few Insects. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 78(2): 214-216 (abstract)

Hulst, G.D. 1886. New species of Geometridae, No 2. Entomologica Americana. 2: 120

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona - pinned photos

Works Cited

1.	Notes on the life histories of two California moths. John A. Comstock & Charles M. Dammers . 1942. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 41(1): 44-47.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by tom murray on 15 August, 2009 - 10:58pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 18 January, 2018 - 9:31am

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