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Species Cabera quadrifasciaria - Four-lined Cabera Moth - Hodges#6680

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Four-lined Cabera - Cabera quadrifasciaria 6680 Four-lined Cabera Moth - Cabera quadrifasciaria - female Cabera quadrifasciaria? - Cabera quadrifasciaria - male Four-lined Cabera Moth - Hodges#6680 - Cabera quadrifasciaria - female Four-lined Cabera Moth - Hodges#6680 - Cabera quadrifasciaria - male Four-lined Cabera Moth - Hodges#6680 - Cabera quadrifasciaria - female Cabera quadrifasciaria - male - female Cabera quadrifasciaria? - Cabera quadrifasciaria - 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 Caberini
Genus Cabera
Species quadrifasciaria (Four-lined Cabera Moth - Hodges#6680)
Hodges Number
6680
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cabera quadrifasciaria (Packard, 1873)
Aspilates quadrifasciaria Packard 1873
Deilinia quadrifasciaria (Packard 1873) (1)
Many synonyms. (1)
Numbers
Cabera has 5 species in America north of Mexico. (2)
Size
Forewing length: (1)
♂ 14-16 mm.
♀ 13-15 mm.
Identification
Forewing has four transverse lines.
The Rindge (1956) revised description as Deilinia quadrifasciaria (Packard), is available online in PDF. (1)
Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)
Range
Colorado, eastward throughout most of the eastern United States, especially near the tributaries
of the Mississippi River. (4), (5), (6), (1)
Season
Adults are most common from May to July. (1)
Food
Larval host plant Amorpha fruticosa (False Wild Indigo).
Leadplant (Amorpha canescens) may also be a host plant. Adults have been found in places where there is Leadplant but not False Wild Indigo nearby, and larvae have been successfully reared on Leadplant. (information from Jim Sogaard)
Life Cycle
Life Cycle images:
green larva on leadplant; final instar green larva; brown larva; adult
See Also
Cabera erythemaria has three transverse lines.
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group
Print References
Packard 1873. Annual report United States Geological and Geographical Survey. 7: 551.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems
Dalton State
Works Cited
1.A Revision of the American Species of Deilinia [Cabera] (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)
Frederick H. Rindge . 1956. American Museum Novitates 1810: 1-31.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
4.Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America
Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2005.
5.Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)
6.South Carolina Moth Species
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 July, 2011 - 2:36pm
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor
Last updated 17 February, 2016 - 7:27am

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