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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 » Lambdina » Yellow-headed Looper - Hodges#6892 (Lambdina pellucidaria)

Species Lambdina pellucidaria - Yellow-headed Looper - Hodges#6892

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

Yellow-headed Looper - Lambdina pellucidaria

Yellow-headed Looper - Hodges#6892 - Lambdina pellucidaria

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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 pellucidaria (Yellow-headed Looper - Hodges#6892)

Hodges Number

6892

Other Common Names

Pitch Pine Looper; Eastern Pine Looper

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lambdina pellucidaria –(Grote & Robinson, 1867)

Size

wingspan about 33 mm

Identification

Range

New York to Illinois and south to Georgia

Season

Adults fly March thru June

Food

Covell (1984) lists the food plants as oaks and pines.(1)

Life Cycle

Larvae feed on needles until late Sept. They then pupate and overwinter in the duff beneath the tree.(2)

See Also

Lambdina fervidaria

Print References

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - photos of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with photographs of pinned adults and DNA sequence

Maryland Moths

ForestPests.org

GENITALIA: male

Works Cited

1.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

2.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

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

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 13 April, 2006 - 1:30pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Maury Heiman, Marci Hess, Steve Morris
Last updated 26 August, 2023 - 1:08pm

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