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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 » Caberini » Apodrepanulatrix » Apodrepanulatrix litaria - Hodges#6694 (Apodrepanulatrix litaria)

Species Apodrepanulatrix litaria - Hodges#6694

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

Apodrepanulatrix litaria - Hodges #6694 - Apodrepanulatrix litaria - male

Apodrepanulatrix litaria - Apodrepanulatrix litaria - male

Geometridae - Apodrepanulatrix litaria - male

Geometridae: Apodrepanulatrix litaria - Apodrepanulatrix litaria - 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 Caberini

Genus Apodrepanulatrix

Species litaria (Apodrepanulatrix litaria - Hodges#6694)

Hodges Number

6694

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Apodrepanulatrix litaria (Hulst, 1887)

Aspilates litaria Hulst, 1887

* Phylogenetic sequence #197675

Numbers

Two Apodrepanulatrix species are found in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Forewing length 14-17 mm.(1)

Range

Western United States, British Columbia to Oregon and California, and through the Rocky Mountain states to Arizona. (2)

Bug Guide - range map with monthly record of photos submitted to the guide.

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Season

On the wing from April through October.(1)

*March through October records on Moth Photographers Group

Food

Ceanothus L. spp. * USDA plant profile

See Also

Drepanulatrix unicalcaria

Print References

Powell, J. A., and P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. pl. 28.42, .43, 29.1; p. 212.(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map. photos of living and pinned adults.

University of Alberta E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum - species page.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - collection map and photos of pinned adults.

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

2.	A revision of the geometrid moths formerly assigned to Drepanulatrix (Lepidoptera) Frederick H. Rindge. 1949. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 94(5).

Contributed by v belov on 16 February, 2011 - 1:14am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 30 October, 2012 - 12:01am

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