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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 » Boarmiini » Cleora » Double-lined Gray Moth  - Hodges#6594 (Cleora sublunaria)
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Geometridae moth larva on Sweetleaf, (Symplocos tinctoria) Savannah, Chatham Co, Ga, 4/16/2011 - Cleora sublunaria
Copyright © 2011 Fitz O.Clarke, Jr.

Geometridae moth larva on Sweetleaf, (Symplocos tinctoria) Savannah, Chatham Co, Ga, 4/16/2011 - Cleora sublunaria
Wormsloe State Historic Site, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
April 16, 2011
This Geometridae family moth discovered on Sweetleaf, Symplocos tinctoria
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Contributed by Fitz O.Clarke, Jr. on 17 April, 2011 - 6:12pm
Last updated 11 December, 2011 - 7:58pm

Moved
Moved from Geometrid Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 11 December, 2011 - 6:16pm login or register to post comments

 
John and Jane- thank you for
John and Jane- thank you for the ID, "Cleora sublunaria". This April/May, 2012 while serching out the Kings Hairstrike, (Satyrium kingi) on its host-plant Sweetleaf, (Symplocos tinctoria) I will be also on the lookout for this Geometridae moth larvae.
… Fitz O.Clarke, Jr., 11 December, 2011 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 20 April, 2011 - 4:07pm login or register to post comments

couple that have those black spots down the back
are Cleora sublunaria and Paleacrita vernata. Check those out while we keep looking.
… john and jane balaban, 17 April, 2011 - 8:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Probably Cleora sublunaria
It looks like a mid instar that will change a bit, but the spots are identical to the picture in Wagner page 155.
… tom murray, 11 December, 2011 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

 
Tom- thank you for your ident
Tom- thank you for your identification of this Geometridae moth species, as "Cleora sublunaria"
… Fitz O.Clarke, Jr., 11 December, 2011 - 7:55pm login or register to post comments

 
John and Jane- thank you for
John and Jane- thank you for your information. I will check the two species out. There appear to be many adult images of the both species- I have as yet to locate a larvae image of either.
… Fitz O.Clarke, Jr., 17 April, 2011 - 10:21pm login or register to post comments

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