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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Sterrhinae » Cosymbiini » Semaeopus » Semaeopus gracilata - Hodges#7142 (Semaeopus gracilata)

Species Semaeopus gracilata - Hodges#7142

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 Sterrhinae

Tribe Cosymbiini

Genus Semaeopus

Species gracilata (Semaeopus gracilata - Hodges#7142)

Hodges Number

7142

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Semaeopus gracilata (Grossbeck, 1912)

Dasycosymbia gracilata Grossbeck, 1912

Phylogenetic sequence #910550.00

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet is Latin meaning "slim, lean, graceful."

Size

Wingspan 23.5-25 mm. (1)

Range

Described from southern Arizona specimens collected from the Catalina and Baboquivari Mountains, Redington and Christmas (Grossbeck, 1912). Three specimens collected from Coyote Mountains, Pima County, Arizona.(1) Bordelon & Knudson added Brewster Co., TX (LepSoc), and there is a recent record from Jeff Davis Co., TX (iNaturalist).

Season

April-May and August-September. Early literature records are all from the first week in August (Grossbeck, 1912; Wright, 1920); the Gillette Museum has as an AZ specimen from February (SCAN).

Print References

Grossbeck, J.A., 1912. Miscellaneous notes and descriptions of North American Geometridae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 20(4): 283.

Wright, W., 1920. Report on the Lepidoptera of the American Museum Expedition to Arizona, 1916: Geometridae and Epiplemidae. Bulletin AMNH 42(14): 483-490. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Moths of southeastern Arizona (3)

Works Cited

1.	Report on the Lepidoptera of the American Museum expedition to Arizona, 1916 (Geometridae and Epiplemidae) Wm. S. Wright. 1920. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42: 483-490.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 20 April, 2012 - 10:43pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Chuck Sexton
Last updated 27 January, 2019 - 7:38pm

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