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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Sterrhinae » Scopulini » Lophosis » Stained Lophosis - Hodges#7181 (Lophosis labeculata)

Species Lophosis labeculata - Stained Lophosis - Hodges#7181

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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 Scopulini
Genus Lophosis
Species labeculata (Stained Lophosis - Hodges#7181)
Hodges Number
7181
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lophosis labeculata (Hulst, 1887) (1)
Eois labeculata Hulst, 1887
syn. L. roseotincta
Phylogenetic sequence # 210600
Numbers
the only species in this genus in North America
Size
Wingspan about 14 mm. (Hulst, 1887)
Identification
Adult: male wings shiny purple with broad yellow terminal band separated from the purple by a sharp dividing line; female wings similar but with broad yellow AM band, and the terminal band is separated from the purple by a diffuse line broken into patches.
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Range
Heppner (2003) listed the range as Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of New Jersey to Florida and Texas. (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)
Also occurs in Cuba.
Season
Adults are most common from April to October. (9)
Heppner (2003) reported adults from January to August, October to December in Florida. (7)
Food
Heppner (2003) reported the larval host plant is unknown. (7)
Print References
Hulst, G.D. 1887. New species of Geometridae No. 3. Entomologica Americana, 2: 187.
Hulst, G.D. 1896. Classification of the Geometrina of North America, with descriptions of new genera and species, 308. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (9)
presence in New York; list (Timothy McCabe, Olive Natural Heritage Society, New York)
presence in Virginia; list and status of Species in Greatest Conservation Need (Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Works Cited
1.Classification of the Geometrina of North America, with descriptions of new genera and species
George D. Hulst. 1896. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 23: 245-386.
2.Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)
3.Kentucky Butterfly Net Database (moths also)
4.South Carolina Moth Species
5.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
6.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
7.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
8.An annotated checklist of the Missouri Geometridae (Lepidoptera)
Roger L. Heitzman. 1973. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 12(3): 169-179.
9.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 6 May, 2006 - 10:10am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 13 June, 2013 - 2:43pm

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