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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 » Drepanulatrix » Drepanulatrix bifilata - Hodges#6684 (Drepanulatrix bifilata)

Species Drepanulatrix bifilata - Hodges#6684

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

Two Pink Lines w/ pinkish wings - moth - Drepanulatrix bifilata

Drepanulatrix? - Drepanulatrix bifilata - female

Moth, dorsal - Drepanulatrix bifilata - female

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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 Drepanulatrix

Species bifilata (Drepanulatrix bifilata - Hodges#6684)

Hodges Number

6684

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Drepanulatrix bifilata (Hulst, 1880)

Lozogramma bifilata Hulst, 1880 (1)

Thamnonoma perpallidaria Grote, 1882

Drepanulatrix carneata (Warren, 1904)

Numbers

one of twelve named species in the genus for North America north of Mexico

plus several known but undescribed species

Size

wingspan 22-27 mm

Range

southern California to New Mexico (possible larger range)

Print References

Hodges, R.W. et al. (editors) 1983. Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico. E. W. Classey, London, UK.(2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems

USGS Lepidoptera of Colorado National Monument list

Moths of Kern County California

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the geometrid moths formerly assigned to Drepanulatrix (Lepidoptera) Frederick H. Rindge. 1949. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 94(5).

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

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 19 August, 2009 - 1:15pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 24 October, 2013 - 9:22pm

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