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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 » Glena » Glena furfuraria - Hodges#6446 (Glena furfuraria)

Species Glena furfuraria - Hodges#6446

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Glena furfuraria ssp. furfuraria, #6446 - Glena furfuraria - male Glena grisearia ? - Glena furfuraria Geometrid Moth - Glena furfuraria - male Glena furfuraria? - Glena furfuraria Geometrid 02-CFR - Glena furfuraria - male Geometrid TBD - BBNP 1 - Glena furfuraria - female Moth ws 3-4cm - Glena furfuraria - male 3035377 geo - Glena furfuraria - 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 Glena
Species furfuraria (Glena furfuraria - Hodges#6446)
Hodges Number
6446
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Glena furfuraria (Hulst, 1888)
Glena furfuraria minor (Sperry, 1952)
Boarmia furfuraria Hulst, 1888 (1)
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet from Latin furfuris meaning "scaly, scurfy."
Numbers
There are ten named species of Glena in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)
Size
Forewing length 16-22 mm., the females average larger than males.(1)
The central Texas population are smaller at 13-20 mm. (1)
Identification
Forewings light gray to grayish brown with obscure maculation.(1)
Range
New Mexico, western and central Texas to Colorado.(1)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Adults fly from April through September.(1)
Food
Larval host unknown.(1)
See Also
Glena grisearia which is browner and with bolder maculation.(1)


Stenoporpia dionaria
Print References
Hulst, G.D. 1888. New species of Geometridae. Entomologica Americana Vol. 3, No. 4. p. (214) (read oline or download PDF)
Rindge, R. H. 1965. A revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Glena (Lepidoptera: Geometridae).(1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona
Works Cited
1.A revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Glena (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
Frederick H. Rindge. 1965. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 129(3).
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 22 December, 2012 - 11:48pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 9 January, 2018 - 11:25am

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