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Species Idaea asceta - Hodges#7117.1

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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 Sterrhinae
Tribe Sterrhini
Genus Idaea
Species asceta (Idaea asceta - Hodges#7117.1)

Hodges Number

7117.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Idaea asceta (Prout, 1910) (1)
Ptychopoda asceta Prout, 1910 (1)

Identification

Determined by Charles V. Covell Jr. (2)

Range

Southern Texas to Argentina.
Arizona(?)

Season

March, June to September. (2)

Remarks

Charles V. Covell Jr. discovered this to be new to the North American fauna after a visit to the Natural History Museum of London in 1987. He recognized the unknown Texas specimens in the United States National Museum as a match for Ptychopoda asceta. (2)

See Also

Idaea occidentaria
Idaea gemmata

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life (BOLD)
iNaturalist

Works Cited

1.New genera and species of African Geometridae
L. B. Prout. 1910. Novitates Zoologicae 22: 310.
2. Idaea asceta (Prout) Geometridae: Sterrhinae from Texas, new to the North American fauna
Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2012. News of the Lepidopterists' Society 53(3): 79.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 4 March, 2011 - 11:04am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 29 May, 2025 - 8:55am

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