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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 » Eupitheciini » Eupithecia » Eupithecia tenuata - Hodges#7559 (Eupithecia tenuata)

Species Eupithecia tenuata - Hodges#7559

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

Eupithecia tenuata - Hodges #7559 - Eupithecia tenuata

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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 Eupitheciini

Genus Eupithecia

Species tenuata (Eupithecia tenuata - Hodges#7559)

Hodges Number

7559

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eupithecia tenuata Hulst, 1880 (1)

Hulst originally described in Eupithecia and later attempted to placed in Eucymatoge. (1)

Numbers

There are more than 160 species of the genus Eupithecia in America north of Mexico. (2)

Identification

Hulst (1880) original description is available online in the print references.

Revised description in PDF (1949). (1)

Range

British Columbia to southern California and New Mexico. (3), (4), (2), (5), (1)

Moth Photographers Group map

Season

The main flight period is June to August. (2), (1)

Two broods in British Columbia of June and July to August according to McDunnough. (1)

Food

Unknown. (1)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Eupitheciini of Canada. (6)

Print References

Hulst, G.D. 1880. Description of some new species of Geometridae. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 2(6): 45.

McDunnough. J.H. 1949. Revision of the North American species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). p. 647; pl. 30.7; text fig 3c. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group(2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)(7)

Geometroidea of Canada

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the North American species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) James H. McDunnough. 1949. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 93(8).

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

4.	Survey of Utah Moth Species

5.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

6.	The Moths of Canada (Larentiinae: Eupitheciini) J.T. Troubridge, J. D. Lafontaine. 2004. Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility.

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 August, 2011 - 8:28pm
Last updated 28 November, 2013 - 12:20am

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