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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 » Angeronini » Lytrosis » Common Lytrosis - Hodges#6720 (Lytrosis unitaria)

Species Lytrosis unitaria - Common Lytrosis - Hodges#6720

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Angeronini
Genus Lytrosis
Species unitaria (Common Lytrosis - Hodges#6720)
Hodges Number
6720
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lytrosis unitaria (Herrich-Schäffer)
Orig. Comb: Boarmia unitaria Herrich-Schäffer 1854
Size
Forewing length 21 to 30 mm., females larger than males
Range
Eastern North America - Map (MPG)(1)
Food
Pin oak Quercus palustris, hawthorn Crataegus, sugar maple Acer saccharum
See Also
Lytrosis sinuosa - Wings are various shades of brown or yellowish brown with the median area being concolorous with the basal area of the wing. (2)
Print References
(3)
(2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - MPG (1)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.A revision of the moth genus Lytrosis (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)
Frederick H. Rindge. 1971. American Museum Novitates, 2474: 1-21.
3.Lytrosis (Hulst) of Louisiana
Vernon Antoine Brou Jr. 2005. Southern Lepidopterists' News, 27:7.
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by anitagould, Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, metrioptera
Last updated 1 February, 2016 - 6:11am

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