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Species Iridopsis humaria - Small Purplish Gray - Hodges#6584

Iridopsis defectaria - Iridopsis humaria

Iridopsis defectaria - Iridopsis humaria - male

Iridopsis vellivolata - Iridopsis humaria - female

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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 Boarmiini

Genus Iridopsis

Species humaria (Small Purplish Gray - Hodges#6584)

Hodges Number

6584

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Iridopsis humaria (Guenée, [1858])

original combination Boarmia humaria Guenée, [1858]

syn. Boarmia intraria Guenée, 1857

= Cymatophora humaria; in Packard (1876) Rep. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Territ. 10: 425

= Synopsia humaria; in Gumppenberg (1892)

= Selidosema humarium; in Hulst (1896); in Barnes & McDunnough (1917) Cont. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. Am. 2 (5): 210

= Cleora humarium

= Anacamptodes humaria; in McDunnough (1920); redescription in Rindge (1966) Bull. USNM 132 (3): 215

* phylogenetic sequence #194750

Size

WS ≈ 24-28mm (1)

Identification

Adult: Resembles Large Purplish Gray except smaller, with a more rounded FW. Indistinct median line merges with PM near inner margin. (1)

Print References

Rindge FH (1966) Revision of the Moth genus Anacamptodes. Bulletin of the USNM 132 (3): 175-244, pl. 22-25 (34Mb PDF)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – images of live and pinned adults

BOLD Systems - images of pinned DNA supported specimens

Mothguide.com - species description and distribution

E. H. Strickland Museum – species description

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Cotinis on 11 January, 2006 - 8:46pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 30 May, 2015 - 4:14pm

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