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Species Lambdina laeta - Hodges#6891

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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 Ourapterygini
Genus Lambdina
Species laeta (Lambdina laeta - Hodges#6891)
Hodges Number
6891
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lambdina laeta (Hulst 1900) (1)
Therina laeta Hulst 1900 (1), (107)
Ellopia laeta (Hulst 1916)
Ellopia flavilincaria (Barnes, 1913)
Numbers
There are nine named species of Lambdina in America north of Mexico. (2)
Size
Wingspan 27-32 mm. (2)
Hulst (1900) listed a wingspan of 27 mm.
Identification
Specimen identified by DNA (BOLD) (3)
Range
Arizona, New Mexico into Mexico.
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Records of adults are mostly from May to November. (2)
See Also
Compare to related species on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Hulst, G.D., 1900. Some new species of Geometridae. The Canadian Entomologist, 32: 107.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (4)
Works Cited
1.Some American geometrid moths of the subfamily Ennominae heretofore associated with or closely related to Ellopia (Treitschke)
Hahn W. Capps. 1943. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 93(3159): 115-151.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
4.Moths of Southeast Arizona
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 August, 2010 - 12:11am
Last updated 29 January, 2014 - 10:15am

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