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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 » Lithinini » Homochlodes » Pale Homochlodes - Hodges#6812 (Homochlodes fritillaria)

Species Homochlodes fritillaria - Pale Homochlodes - Hodges#6812

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Print References · Internet References

Homochlodes lactispargaria - Homochlodes fritillaria

Homochlodes disconventa - Homochlodes fritillaria

Which Homochlodes? - Homochlodes fritillaria

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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 Lithinini

Genus Homochlodes

Species fritillaria (Pale Homochlodes - Hodges#6812)

Hodges Number

6812

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Homochlodes fritillaria (Guenée, [1858])

Numeria fritillaria Guenée, [1858]

Cidaria lactispargaria Walker, 1861 (placedin in Cidaria by Walker with a question mark)

Ypsipetes immersata Walker, 1862

Tephrosia disconventa Walker, 1860

Explanation of Names

Homochlodes fritillaria (Guenée, [1858]) includes as synonym Homochlodes lactispargaria (Walker, 1861) and Homochlodes disconventa (Walker, 1860) in Matson & Mcguinness (2023).

Size

wingspan about 26 mm, based on Moth Photographers Group specimen

Identification

Genitalia:

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♂

Print References

Matson, T.A. & H.D. Mcguinness, 2023. Homochlodes Hulst, 1896, a Single Species in the United States and Canada (Geometridae, Ennominae). The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 77(2) 122-125.

Walker, F. 1862 Geometrites List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. 25:1387

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD - species account with photograph of pinned adult.

Contributed by Cotinis on 11 January, 2006 - 8:53pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robin McLeod, Tony-2, anitagould, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Robert H. Biagi, Steve Morris
Last updated 10 February, 2024 - 7:54am

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