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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Sterrhinae » Scopulini » Leptostales » Light-ribboned Wave - Hodges#7180 (Leptostales ferruminaria)

Species Leptostales ferruminaria - Light-ribboned Wave - Hodges#7180

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Light-ribboned Wave - Leptostales ferruminaria

Leptostales ferruminaria - Hodge's #7180 - Leptostales ferruminaria

Leptostales rubromarginaria - Leptostales ferruminaria

Geometridae: Leptostales ferruminaria - Leptostales ferruminaria

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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 Sterrhinae

Tribe Scopulini

Genus Leptostales

Species ferruminaria (Light-ribboned Wave - Hodges#7180)

Hodges Number

7180

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Leptostales ferruminaria – (Zeller, 1872)

Acidalia ferruminaria – (Zeller, 1872)

Numbers

ten Leptostales species are found in America north of Mexico

Size

wingspan 15-20 mm

Range

eastern North America west to Oklahoma and north to British Columbia.

See Also

Leptostales rubromarginaria

Print References

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico (1)

Acidalia ferruminaria Zeller, 1872. Beiträge zur Kentniss der nordamericanischen Nachtfalter besonders der Microlepidopteren p. 478

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - photos of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with photos of pinned adults and collection map.

lepbarcoding.org - pinned adults and map of collected specimens.

Moth Photographers Group - photo of pinned adult and related species to compare.

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

Contributed by Bob Patterson on 6 July, 2010 - 11:33pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 5 September, 2015 - 9:13am

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