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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 » Anagogini » Cepphis » Dark Scallop Moth - Hodges#6834 (Cepphis decoloraria)

Species Cepphis decoloraria - Dark Scallop Moth - Hodges#6834

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Dark Scallop Moth - Hodges#6834 - Cepphis decoloraria

Cepphis decoloraria - Dark Scallop Moth - Cepphis decoloraria

dark scallop moth - Cepphis decoloraria - 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 Anagogini

Genus Cepphis

Species decoloraria (Dark Scallop Moth - Hodges#6834)

Hodges Number

6834

Numbers

one of two species in this genus in North America; local and rare

Size

wingspan 25-28 mm

Identification

forewing brownish-gray with wavy margin and dark gray band in median area; AM line thin, dark; black semicircular patch along outer margin near apex

hindwing similarly colored but with scalloped outer margin

some specimens (southern ones?) have conspicuous pale speckling in median area of both wings

Range

Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Missouri, north to Manitoba

Season

adults fly from May to September in the north (2 broods)

Food

larvae feed on leaves of Rubus (raspberry etc.)

Life Cycle

two generations per year

See Also

Cepphis armataria is paler and its forewing margin is scalloped (compare images of both species)

Internet References

live adult images (Larry Line, Maryland)

live adult image by Bob Patterson, and common name reference (Moth Photographers Group)

pinned adult images (CBIF)

pinned adult images of male and female (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)

larval food plants; PDF doc plus flight season and life cycles (Macrolepidoptera of Mont Saint-Hilaire Region, McGill U., Quebec)

presence in Florida; list (Michael Thomas, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)

distribution in Canada list of provinces (CBIF)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 17 December, 2005 - 9:54pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, marcie oconnor
Last updated 29 July, 2019 - 6:29am

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