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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 » Azelinini » Pero » Pero mizon - Hodges#6757 (Pero mizon)

Species Pero mizon - Hodges#6757

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

Inchworm camouflaged as banded twig - Pero mizon

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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 Azelinini

Genus Pero

Species mizon (Pero mizon - Hodges#6757)

Hodges Number

6757

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Author: Rindge, 1955

Size

forewing length 21 - 25 mm (1)

Range

southern BC to central California (1); common and widely distributed in wet conifer forests of the Pacific Northwest, especially abundant west of the Cascades (USGS)

Food

Grossulariaceae, Pinaceae, Rosaceae (1); (USGS) reports hosts as maple Acer, madrone Arbutus menziesii, snowberry Symphoricarpos albus, ocean spray Holodiscus discolor, and oak Quercus and conifers, such as Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii and western hemlock Tsuga heterophylla

Life Cycle

Eggs laid in rows on host leaves. Overwinter as fourth instar larva (1)

See Also

Populations in the southern Rocky Mountains are considered to be a separate species, Pero giganteus (USGS)

Print References

Rindge, F.H. 1955. A revision of some species of Pero from the western United States (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). American Museum Novitates 1750: 1-33 (PDF) (2)

Internet References

USGS - species page

Works Cited

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

2.	A revision of some species of Pero from the western United States (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Frederick. H. Rindge. 1955. American Museum Novitates 1750: 1-33.

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 11 August, 2006 - 6:16pm
Additional contributions by John Davis, Randy Hardy
Last updated 6 May, 2013 - 12:49pm

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