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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 » Cassymini » Protitame » Protitame subalbaria - Hodges#6266 (Protitame subalbaria)

Species Protitame subalbaria - Hodges#6266

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

Protitame matilda - Protitame subalbaria - female

Protitame subalbaria? - Protitame subalbaria

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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 Cassymini

Genus Protitame

Species subalbaria (Protitame subalbaria - Hodges#6266)

Hodges Number

6266

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Protitame subalbaria (Packard, 1873)

Acidalia subalbaria Packard, 1873

syn.

Protitame matilda (Dyar, 1904)(1)

Numbers

There are three species of the genus Protitame in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Ferguson (2008) listed the forewing length. (1)

♂ 12-14 mm.

♀ 10-14 mm.

Range

Southern California to Wyoming, British Columbia and Alberta. (2)

Season

The main flight period is May to September. (3)

Food

The larvae feed on aspen and willow. (3)

Print References

Ferguson, D.C., 2008. The Moths of North America, Fascicle 17.2, Geometroidea, Geometridae, Ennominae (part: Abaxini, Cassymini, Macariini). The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 44; pl. 1.27-28. (1)

Packard Jr., A.S., 1873. Californian Phalaenidae. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History,16: 28.

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, p. 204; plate 27, fig. 18. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

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

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 6 August, 2006 - 12:49am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 30 October, 2013 - 1:21am

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