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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 » Caberini » Sericosema » Sericosema immaculata - Hodges#6673 (Sericosema immaculata)

Species Sericosema immaculata - Hodges#6673

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Immaculate Fawn Moth - Sericosema immaculata - male

Immaculate Fawn Moth - Sericosema immaculata

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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 Caberini

Genus Sericosema

Species immaculata (Sericosema immaculata - Hodges#6673)

Hodges Number

6673

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sericosema immaculata (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)

Euemera immaculata Barnes & McDunnough, 1913

Size

Wingspan:

♂ 25-36 mm.

♀ 27-37 mm

Identification

Barnes & McDunnough (1913) original description as Euemera immaculata is available online in the print references.

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (1)

Range

Oregon to California and Arizona. (2)

Season

The main flight period is May to August.

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (3)

Print References

Barnes & McDunnough, 1913. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America 2: 129, pl. 8, fig. 2. (4)

Rindge, F.H., 1950. A revision of the Geometrid genus Sericosema (Lepidoptera). American Museum Novitates 1468: 11; figs. 5b, 7b. (5)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (1)

University of California, Berkeley

Works Cited

1.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

2.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America (Vols. 1-4) William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough. 1911. Decatur ILL., The Review Press.

5.	A revision of the Geometrid genus Sericosema (Lepidoptera). Frederick H. Rindge. 1950. American Museum Novitates 1468: 1-30.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 18 May, 2013 - 1:35am
Last updated 30 April, 2014 - 9:37pm

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