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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Macariini » Macaria » Macaria flavicaria - Hodges#6276 (Macaria flavicaria)

Species Macaria flavicaria - Hodges#6276

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

Macaria flavicaria? - Macaria flavicaria - 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 Macariini

Genus Macaria

Species flavicaria (Macaria flavicaria - Hodges#6276)

Hodges Number

6276

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Macaria flavicaria (Packard, 1876)

Speranza flavicaria (Packard, 1876)

Thamnonoma flavicaria Packard, 1876

Diastictis subfalcata Hulst, 1896

Identification

Males are light yellowish brown with a dark forewing discal spot.(1)

Range

Colorado to New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. (1)

Macaria flavicaria is replaced by S. helena in areas of western Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, eastern Washington and eastern Oregon.(1)

Habitat

7,000-8800' elevations in Colorado and as low as 6,050' in New Mexico. Adults usually found near patches of Ribes (currants)(1)

Season

Adults fly late June to early August(1)

Food

The larval host is uncertain but suspected to be Ribes (currants). (1)

Life Cycle

unknown(1)

See Also

Macaria ribearia

Macaria helena

Print References

Ferguson, D.C., 2008. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation., p. 125; pl. 3.1-2. (1)

Sihvonen, P. & P. Skou, 2015. Ennominae I. In: A. Hausmann (ed.): The Geometrid Moths of Europe, 5:

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data(3)

Works Cited

1.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2, Geometroidea, Geometridae, Ennominae. Douglas C. Ferguson . 2008. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 28 June, 2012 - 2:14pm
Last updated 16 June, 2018 - 10:20am

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