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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 marcescaria - Hodges#6323 (Macaria marcescaria)

Species Macaria marcescaria - Hodges#6323

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

Unknown moth - Macaria marcescaria - male

Unknown Geometrid - Macaria marcescaria - male

Unknown moth - Macaria marcescaria - female

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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 marcescaria (Macaria marcescaria - Hodges#6323)

Hodges Number

6323

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Speranza marcescaria (Guenée, [1858])

Halia marcescaria Guenée, [1858]

Thamnonoma marcescaria

Macaria marcescaria

Halia cineraria Packard, 1871

* phylogenetic sequence #187875

Size

Wingspan about 33 mm.

Range

Oregon and California, south to Baja California, Mexico. (1)

Food

Larvae feed on coyotebush (Baccharis pilularis DC., Asteraceae). (2)

Print References

Boisduval & Guenée 1858. Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères 10: 92-93

Ferguson, D.C. 2008. Moths of America North of Mexico, Geometroidea, Geometridae, Ennominae. Fascicle 17.2: 75, pl.1.62-64 (2)

Packard, A.S. 1976. A monograph of the geometrid moths or Phalaenidae of the United States. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 10: 251-252, pl.9, f.69 (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD Systems

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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

3.	A Monograph of the Geometrid or Phalaenidae of the United States. A. S. Packard. 1876. United States Geological Survey of the Territories 10: 1-599.

Contributed by Chris Grinter on 16 November, 2012 - 3:50pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 19 October, 2018 - 11:41pm

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