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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 » Angeronini » Euchlaena » Ochre Euchlaena - Hodges#6734 (Euchlaena marginaria)

Species Euchlaena marginaria - Ochre Euchlaena - Hodges#6734

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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 Angeronini
Genus Euchlaena
Species marginaria (Ochre Euchlaena - Hodges#6734)
Hodges Number
6734
Other Common Names
Margined Euchlaena
Marginal Euchlaena
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Euchlaena marginaria (Minot, 1869)
* phylogenetic sequence #19872
Size
wingspan to 40 mm
Identification
Adult: wings light to dark brown with extensive dark speckling but lack black patches in subterminal area seen in E. tigrinaria; AM and PM lines more diffuse than in E. madusaria; black discal spots small, well defined; in eastern North America, outer third of wing much darker than in western specimens
Larva: mottled dark brown twig mimic with two wart-like dorsal projections at base of abdomen
Range
south-central BC and Idaho to Nova Scotia, south to Florida and Missouri
Habitat
mixedwood and deciduous forests
Season
adults fly from May to August
Food
larvae feed on leaves of alder, ash, basswood, birch, dogwood, elm, meadowsweet (Spiraea spp.), serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.), Viburnum, and willow
Life Cycle
two generations per year in the south; one in the north
Remarks
Wagner et al (2001) state that single-brooded Canadian and northern US populations which have gone under the name marginaria may be a separate species from the double-brooded marginaria of the southeastern US
See Also
E. madusaria and tigrinaria in the north, and also E. pectinaria in the south
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.
BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with collection map and photos of pinned adults.
University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
distribution in Canada list of provinces of occurrence (CBIF)
Contributed by Cotinis on 10 January, 2006 - 5:17am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Tony-2, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 25 September, 2019 - 7:51am

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