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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 » Macariini » Macaria » Speranza colata - Hodges#6308 (Macaria colata)

Species Macaria colata - Speranza colata - Hodges#6308

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Speranza colata - Hodges #6308 - Macaria colata - 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 Macariini

Genus Macaria

Species colata (Speranza colata - Hodges#6308)

Hodges Number

6308

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Speranza colata (Grote(1), 1881)

Phasiane colata Grote, 1881

Synonyms

Selidosema correllatum Hulst, 1896

Diastictis sericeata Hulst, 1898

formerly in Itame

formerly in Macaria

Numbers

There are 50 species of the genus listed for America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Ferguson (2008) listed the forewing length. (2)

♂ 12-14 mm.

♀ 11-13 mm.

Identification

Grote (1881) description as Phasiane colata is online in the print references.

Food

Purshia glandulosa (desert bitterbush). (3)

Print References

Ferguson, D.C., 2008. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 114; pl. 2.50-54. (2)

Grote, A.R. 1881. Papilio 1. p. 167.

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009 Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 206; plate 27, fig. 39. (4)

Internet References

Images at MPG

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2, Geometroidea, Geometridae, Ennominae. Douglas C. Ferguson . 2008. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

3.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

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

Contributed by Chris Mallory on 11 March, 2011 - 5:12pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 4 November, 2022 - 8:23am

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