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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 » Melanolophiini » Galenara

Genus Galenara

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited
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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 Melanolophiini
Genus Galenara
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Galenara McDonnough, 1920 (1)
Numbers
7 western species (2)
Identification
Forewing dark gray or grayish brown, with dark cross lines, variable in course, and with discal spot varying from obsolescent to prominent; hind wings grayish white or gray, usually with obsolescent maculation. Under side pale gray or grayish brown, often suffused with darker scales, with reduced maculation. (1)
Range
southwestern states of the Rocky Mountain region, extending south into central Mexico
Food
pine, Douglas fir
Print References
(3)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the Melanolophiini (Lepidoptera, Geometridae).
Frederick H. Rindge. 1990. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 199.
2.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
3.A revision of the genera Carphoides, Paraphoides, and Galenara (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)
Frederick H. Rindge. 1964. American Museum Novitates, 2189: 1-53.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 31 December, 2009 - 3:06pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 30 April, 2014 - 8:13pm

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