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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 » Eudrepanulatrix » Eudrepanulatrix rectifascia - Hodges#6681 (Eudrepanulatrix rectifascia)

Species Eudrepanulatrix rectifascia - Hodges#6681

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 Eudrepanulatrix

Species rectifascia (Eudrepanulatrix rectifascia - Hodges#6681)

Hodges Number

6681

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

original combination Diastictis rectifascia Hulst, 1896

Explanation of Names

rectifascia is derived from Latin meaning Straight Banded (1)

Size

wingspan 22 - 30 mm, females generally smaller than males (2)

Identification

Adults - cream white through pinkish, pinkish brown to gray, sometimes slightly darker subterminally; basal, antemedian, and median lines lacking; discal dot round, dark, prominent (2)

Specimens identified by DNA analysis:

Larvae - light grey with a geminate brown middorsal line. Miller and Hammond report green larvae with faint white lines in the Pacific Northwest (3)

Range

California north to Washington and west to northern Idaho including adjacent Canadian border areas (2), Arizona and Colorado (3)

Season

two flights between late-February and mid-August

Food

buckthorn Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae) (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

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).

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

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 8 May, 2006 - 8:23am
Additional contributions by John Davis, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 28 January, 2018 - 1:28pm

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