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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 » Boarmiini » Tornos

Genus Tornos

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Dimorphic Gray Moth Caterpillar - Hodges #6486 - Tornos scolopacinaria moth - Tornos Tornos scolopacinaria - Dimorphic Gray - Hodges#6486 for March??? - Tornos Brown narrow-winged moth - Tornos - male Tornos scolopacinaria - Dimorphic Gray - Tornos scolopacinaria - male Tornos scolopacinaria - Dimorphic Gray - Tornos scolopacinaria Tornos abjectarius - female Tornos scolopacinaria - 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 Boarmiini
Genus Tornos
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tornos Morrison, 1875
Numbers
7 species occur in America north of Mexico
Tornos abjectarius Hulst, 1887
Tornos benjamini Cassino & Swett, 1925
Tornos cinctarius Hulst, 1887
Tornos erectarius Grossbeck, 1909
Tornos hoffmanni Rindge, 1954
Tornos punctata Druce, 1898
Tornos scolopacinaria, Guenee 1857
Identification
Adult - distinguished by their elongate wings, somber colors, and by having a prominent raised tuft of scales in place of the usual discal dot on the upper surface of the forewings.
Print References
Morrison, H.K. 1875. List of a collection of Texan Noctuidae, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 17: 217
Rindge, F.H. 1954. A Revision of the genus Tornos Morrison (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 104(2): 177-236, f.1-35 (available at AMNH) (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Works Cited
1.A Revision of the genus Tornos (Morrison) Lepidoptera, Geometridae
Frederick H. Rindge. 1954. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 104(2): 1-39.
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 5 August, 2006 - 7:39pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 15 June, 2015 - 9:17am

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