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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 » Ourapterygini » Sericoptera » Sericoptera virginaria - Hodges#6994 (Sericoptera virginaria)

Species Sericoptera virginaria - Hodges#6994

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Geometrid of some kind - Sericoptera virginaria - female

Geometer moth at blacklight - Sericoptera virginaria - male

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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 Ourapterygini

Genus Sericoptera

Species virginaria (Sericoptera virginaria - Hodges#6994)

Hodges Number

6994

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sericoptera virginaria (Hulst, 1886) (1)

Ripula virginaria Hulst, 1886

Sericoptera insularis (Warren, 1909)

Formerly placed in tribe Ourapterygini

Size

Wingspan 39-42 mm. (Warren), (2)

Identification

The original description as Ripula virginaria Hulst and a later description as Sericoptera insularis Warren are both available online in the print references below.

Range

Florida. (3), (4)

Cuba, Mexico

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Adults fly year round in Florida. (2), (4)

Food

Heppner (2003) lists the larval host as aspen(?): (4)

Populus grandidnetata

Populus tremuloidea

See Also

Compare to related species on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Hulst, G.D. 1886. New species and varieties of Geometridae. Entomologica Americana. 202

Warren, W. 1909. New American Uraniidae and Geometridae. Novitates Zoologicae. 16: 108.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

4.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 4 June, 2011 - 9:42am
Last updated 24 October, 2013 - 8:40am

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