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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 » Sterrhini » Idaea » Idaea pervertipennis - Hodges#7107 (Idaea pervertipennis)

Species Idaea pervertipennis - Hodges#7107

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

Idaea pervertipennis - Hodges #7107 - Idaea pervertipennis

Idaea pervertipennis? - Idaea pervertipennis

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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 Sterrhini

Genus Idaea

Species pervertipennis (Idaea pervertipennis - Hodges#7107)

Hodges Number

7107

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Idaea pervertipennis (Hulst, 1900)

Cysteophora pervertipennis Hulst 1900

Numbers

Size

Wingspan about 11 mm.

Identification

Hulst (1900) original description as Cysteophora pervertipennis is available online in the print references below. (1)

Range

Heppner (2003) reported the range as Georgia and Florida to Texas. (2), (3), (4), (5)

Holotype collected in Palm Beach, Florida.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Heppner (2003) reported adults in January, March to April, August, December from Florida. (5)

Food

Heppner (2003) listed the larval host as unknown. (5)

See Also

Compare on the plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Hulst, G.D. 1900. New species of Lepidoptera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 8: 215, (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	Journal of the New York Entomological Society- Available for free at Internet Archive

2.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

3.	Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 3C: Micro-Moths and Geometroids Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2008. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. 30 pp., 18 plates.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 September, 2012 - 2:19pm
Last updated 26 April, 2014 - 1:14pm

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