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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 macdunnoughi - Hodges#7512 (Eupithecia macdunnoughi)

Species Eupithecia macdunnoughi - Hodges#7512

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

Eupithecia of some kind? - Eupithecia macdunnoughi

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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 macdunnoughi (Eupithecia macdunnoughi - Hodges#7512 )

Hodges Number

7512

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eupithecia macdunnoughi Rindge, 1952 (1)

syn. Eupithecia suspiciosata McDunnough, 1949 (2)

Numbers

There are more than 160 Eupithecia species in America north of Mexico.(3)

Size

Wingspan about 18 mm.

Identification

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (4)

Range

California(5) to Arizona(6); (Colorado?). (7)

Moth Photographers Group

Season

Records of adults from January to August. (7)

Food

Unknown.

See Also

Many similar species that usually require dissection to determine.(3)

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

McDunnough, J.H. 1949. Revision of the North American species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 93(8), p. 596; pl. 28, fig. 13, text fig. 7f. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Works Cited

1.	Taxonomic and life history notes on North American Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) Frederick H. Rindge. 1952. American Museum Novitates 1569: 1-27.

2.	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).

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

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

6.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

7.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 31 March, 2012 - 11:12am
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 11:44pm

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