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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 » Boarmiini » Stenoporpia » Stenoporpia lea - Hodges#6477 (Stenoporpia lea)

Species Stenoporpia lea - Hodges#6477

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

Stenoporpia lea? - Stenoporpia lea - 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 Boarmiini

Genus Stenoporpia

Species lea (Stenoporpia lea - Hodges#6477)

Hodges Number

6477

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Stenoporpia lea Rindge, 1968 (1)

Numbers

There are 23 named species of Stenoporpia in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Forewing length: (1)

Spring generation 18-21 mm.

Summer generation 14-17 mm.

Range

Southern Arizona and adjacent northern Mexico. (1)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Record of two broods from March to June and July to October. (2), (1)

Food

Larval host is Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco. (Douglas-fir). (3), (4)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Rindge, F.H. 1968. A revision of the moth genus Stenoporpia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. p. 129; fig. 14; pl. 6.7; pl.12.4; pl.16.5. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the moth genus Stenoporpia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) Frederick H. Rindge. 1968. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 140(2): 65-134.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

4.	The larvae of some species of the genus Stenoporpia from Arizona (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Robert W. Poole. 1969. The Canadian Entomologist 101(7): 738-757.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 10 October, 2009 - 8:59pm
Last updated 24 October, 2013 - 8:24pm

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