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Species Scopula lautaria - Small Frosted Wave Moth - Hodges#7149

Small Frosted Wave Moth - Scopula lautaria

Scopula lautaria - Small Frosted Wave Moth for Alabama? - Scopula lautaria

Hodges #7149- Small Frosted Wave Moth - Scopula lautaria

Scopula lautaria - Small Frosted Wave Moth - Scopula lautaria

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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 Scopulini

Genus Scopula

Species lautaria (Small Frosted Wave Moth - Hodges#7149)

Hodges Number

7149

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

the following are synonyms:

Scopularia minutularia (Hulst, 1880)

Scopularia myrmidonata (Guenée, [1858])

Numbers

one of 24 North American species

Size

wingspan about 15 mm

Range

Southeastern US, Texas to Florida

Print References

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pinned adults.

lepbarcoding.org - species account with photographs of pinned adults

Moth Photographers Group - photograph of pinned adult and related species for comparison.

Lepidoptera of Florida Checklist - presence in Florida.

South Carolina Moth Checklist - presence in South Carolina

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 8 September, 2006 - 12:50pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 5 October, 2011 - 11:26am

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