Species Acanthotoca graefii - Hodges#6920

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Internet References · Works Cited

Acanthotoca graefi (?) - Acanthotoca graefii

Hodges#6920 - Acanthotoca graefii - 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 Ourapterygini

Genus Acanthotoca

Species graefii (Acanthotoca graefii - Hodges#6920)

Hodges Number

6920

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acanthotoca graefi (Hulst, 1896)

Acanthophora graefi Hulst, 1896

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet in honor of Edward Louis Graef (d.1922), one of the founders of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. In his history of the society, Graef joked that a large percentage of moths named for him and his friend J.B. Smith ultimately did not survive. Smith wrote of the new genus and species Graefia smithii, "if anything will kill this genus it is the combination of names." (1) He was half right. Graefia is now a junior synonym of Animomyia but J.B. Smith lives on as Animomyia smithii.

Size

Wingspan about 30 mm.

Identification

Range

Known from Seminole Canyon State Park, Val Verde County, Texas and southern Texas.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Works Cited

1.	A new geometrid genus and new species from the extreme southwest. Richard F. Pearsoll. 1910. The Canadian Entomologist, vols. 42(10): 330-332, (cont.) 43(6): 205-207.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 10 February, 2013 - 9:16pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 9 February, 2018 - 2:06pm

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