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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 » Ourapterygini » Nemeris » Nemeris speciosa - Hodges#6876 (Nemeris speciosa)

Species Nemeris speciosa - Hodges#6876

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

Nemeris speciosa? - Nemeris speciosa - 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 Ourapterygini

Genus Nemeris

Species speciosa (Nemeris speciosa - Hodges#6876)

Hodges Number

6876

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Nemeris speciosa (Hulst, 1896)

Diastictis speciosa Hulst, 1896

Explanation of Names

Author: Hulst, 1896

Size

forewing length 14 - 20 mm

Identification

Adult description in PDF.(1)

Range

Colorado, Utah, northern Coconino County and the White Mountains of Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas.

Season

Apparently with a single generation in Colorado, Utah, northern Coconino County and the White Mountains of Arizona, as the adults have been taken from late June into early August. The moths have been caught from May into September in New Mexico, and from March into October in western Texas; this indicates two or more broods per year in these states

Print References

Hulst, 1896. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 23: 332.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the moth genera Meris and Nemeris Fredrick H. Rindge. 1981. American Museum Novitates 2710: 1-28.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 26 August, 2010 - 11:39am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 31 October, 2022 - 10:04am

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