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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Emeralds (Geometrinae) » Nemoriini » Nemoria » Nemoria obliqua - Hodges#7037 (Nemoria obliqua)

Species Nemoria obliqua - Hodges#7037

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

Nemoria w/ pink border & four black spots - Nemoria obliqua

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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 Geometrinae (Emeralds)

Tribe Nemoriini

Genus Nemoria

Species obliqua (Nemoria obliqua - Hodges#7037)

Hodges Number

7037

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Nemoria obliqua (Hulst, 1898) (1), (2)

Aplodes obliqua Hulst, 1898

Synonyms:

Geometra ballonaria Strecker, 1899 (2)

Racheospila hennei Sperry, 1953 (2)

Size

Forewing length: (2)

♂ 11.5-14.5 mm.

♀ 13-15 mm.

Identification

The original description as Aplodes obliqua Hulst, is available online using the link in the print preferences below.

Revised description by Ferguson, 1985. (2)

Brief description of larva is included by Ferguson, 1969. (1)

Range

California(3) to New Mexico and Colorado. (4), (5), (6)

Moth Photographers Group map

Bug Guide data

Season

Records of adults are mostly from April to August. (4)

Food

Larvae have been reared on skunkbush sumac, Rhus trilobata Nutt. (2)

See Also

Nemoria caerulescens

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Ferguson (7), D.C. 1969. A Revision of the Moths of the Subfamily Geometrinae of America North of Mexico (Insecta, Lepidoptera). (1)

Ferguson, D.C. 1985. The Moths of America North of Mexico; Fascicle 18.1; Geometroidea; Geometridae. p. 54.(2)

Hulst, G.D. 1898. Descriptions of new genera and species of the Geometrina of North America. The Canadian Entomologist. p. 168

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Friends Central School

Moths of Southeast Arizona

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the moths of the subfamily Geometrinae of America north of Mexico (Insecta, Lepidoptera) Douglas C. Ferguson. 1969. Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University Bulletin 29.

2.	The Moths of America North of Mexico Fascicle 18.1. Geometroidea, Geometridae (Part), Geometrinae Douglas C. Ferguson . 1985. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

3.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Survey of Utah Moth Species

6.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

7.	Alexander Douglas Campbell Ferguson - 1926-2002 R. W. Hodges. 2003. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 57(4): 299-303.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 August, 2010 - 10:06pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 24 October, 2013 - 6:42pm

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