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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Larentiinae » Hydriomenini » White-Ribboned Carpets (Mesoleuca) » White-ribboned Carpet - Hodges#7307 (Mesoleuca ruficillata)

Species Mesoleuca ruficillata - White-ribboned Carpet - Hodges#7307

Classification · Hodges Number · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

White-ribboned Carpet - Mesoleuca ruficillata

Colorado - Mesoleuca ruficillata - Mesoleuca ruficillata

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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 Larentiinae

Tribe Hydriomenini

Genus Mesoleuca (White-Ribboned Carpets)

Species ruficillata (White-ribboned Carpet - Hodges#7307)

Hodges Number

7307

Numbers

one of two species in this genus in North America

Size

Wingspan: 25-28 mm (1)

Identification

White FW has mottled blue-black basal and subapical patches. PM line is finely scalloped. ST area is marked with faded blue scalloped lines. (1)

Forewing with wide white median band contrasting with black areas at base and along costa from PM to ST lines; black discal spot on all wings. Hindwing white with gray median band and terminal border

Range

across southern Canada and northern United States, south in the east to North Carolina, south in the west to California

Season

adults fly from May to August

Food

larvae feed on birch and raspberry (Rubus spp.) (1)

Life Cycle

two generations per year (May & June, and July & August) (1)

See Also

in the far west, M. gratulata is similar but has a broad wavy black PM band and flies in early spring - usually February to April (compare images of both species)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 1 November, 2005 - 2:44am
Additional contributions by anitagould, Robert Lord Zimlich, Blocky
Last updated 9 June, 2020 - 9:57am

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