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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 » Angeronini » Euchlaena » Euchlaena deplanaria - Hodges#6732 (Euchlaena deplanaria)

Species Euchlaena deplanaria - Hodges#6732

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Geometrid Moth - Hodges #6732 - Euchlaena deplanaria - male Geometrid Moth - Hodges #6732 - Euchlaena deplanaria - male Euchlaena deplanaria Leaf-Shaped Moth - Euchlaena deplanaria Euchlaena deplanaria - Hodges#6732 (Euchlaena deplanaria) - Euchlaena deplanaria - male Leaf Litter Moth - Euchlaena deplanaria 6732 Euchlaena deplanaria - Euchlaena deplanaria Euchlaena deplanaria
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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 Angeronini
Genus Euchlaena
Species deplanaria (Euchlaena deplanaria - Hodges#6732)
Hodges Number
6732
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Euchlaena deplanaria (Walker, [1863])
Ellopia deplanaria Walker 1863
Numbers
Euchlaena has 16 species in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Wingspan about 34 mm.
Identification
According to Rindge (1956), this species has single extradiscal lines on all wings, very prominent discal dots, inconspicuous veins, and tends not to have a well-defined patch at apex of FW.
Range
Colorado to Massachusetts and south to Florida and Texas. (2), (3), (4)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Records of adults from February to October. (1), (4)
Food
Larval host is unknown. (4)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Mothguide
daltonstate.edu
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
3.South Carolina Moth Species
4.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 2 October, 2009 - 1:16pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 24 October, 2013 - 8:27pm

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