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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Larentiinae » Hydriomenini » Entephria » Entephria multivagata - Hodges#7301 (Entephria multivagata)

Species Entephria multivagata - Hodges#7301

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

Entephria multivulgata ? - Entephria multivagata

Entephria sp. maybe - Entephria multivagata

Entephria multivagata - Hodges #7301 - Entephria multivagata

Entephira multivagata - Entephria multivagata

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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 Larentiinae

Tribe Hydriomenini

Genus Entephria

Species multivagata (Entephria multivagata - Hodges#7301)

Hodges Number

7301

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Entephria multivagata (Hulst, 1881)

Scotosia multivagata Hulst, 1881

Size

Hulst (1881) reported the wingspan as 1.5" (38.1 mm.).

Powell & Opler (2009) reported the forewing length as 17-20 mm. (1)

Identification

Range

Western Alberta to southern British Columbia, Oregon, south to Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. (1)

Season

The adults are most common from June to early October. (1)

Food

The larval host plant is Picea glauca (white spruce) and most likely other spruce species because Picea glauca does not occur in all of this moths range (1)

See Also

Other Entephria species are similar.

Zenophleps obscurata

Print References

Hulst, G.D., 1881. Descriptions of some new species of Geometridae. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 4(1): 27.

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, p. 225, pl. 32.13. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Moths of Canada

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Geometroidea of Canada

University of California, Berkeley

Works Cited

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

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 July, 2011 - 3:11pm
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 24 June, 2019 - 10:19am

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