Species Idaea minuta - Hodges#7101

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 Sterrhinae

Tribe Sterrhini

Genus Idaea

Species minuta (Idaea minuta - Hodges#7101)

Hodges Number

7101

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Idaea minuta (Schaus, 1901)

syn. Ptychopoda curtaria Warren, 1904 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 208500

Numbers

Idaea has more than 27 species in America north of Mexico.

Range

Southeastern United States to the Antilles

Lepbarcoding.org has records from Arizona. (linked below)

Season

Records from May to December with August and Sepember the peak.

Food

Larval host is unknown.

Print References

Becker, V.O., Miller, S.E. 2002. The large moths of Guana Island, British Virgin Islands: A survey of efficient colonizers. (Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Noctuidae, Arctiidae, Geometridae, Hyblaeidae, Cossidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society.. 56: 40, figs. 176-177. (1)

Schaus, W. 1901. New species of Geometridae from tropical America. Part I. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 27: 193

Warren, M.A., 1904. New American Thyrididae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae. Novitates Zoologicae. 11: 40

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

lepbarcoding.org

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems

Works Cited

1.	The large moths of Guana Island, British Virgin. Islands: A survey of efficient colonizers. (Sphingidae, Notodontidae, ... Vitor O. Becker, Scott E. Miller. 2002. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 56(1): 9-44 .

Contributed by Chris Grinter on 4 June, 2010 - 6:54pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Ken Childs
Last updated 27 December, 2017 - 7:30am

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