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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Larentiinae » Hydriomenini » Perizoma » Perizoma epictata - Hodges#7326 (Perizoma epictata)

Species Perizoma epictata - Hodges#7326

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

Moth on alkali heath - Perizoma epictata

Moth mimicing a pointilist painting. - Perizoma epictata

Carpet Moth - Tijuana Slough - Perizoma epictata

Moth on Baylands Trail by salt pond in Don Edwards Refuge on 2021 May 10 - Perizoma epictata

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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 Larentiinae

Tribe Hydriomenini

Genus Perizoma

Species epictata (Perizoma epictata - Hodges#7326)

Hodges Number

7326

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Perizoma epictata Barnes & McDunnough(1), 1916

Numbers

Perizoma includes 13 species in America, north of Mexico. (2), (3)

Size

Barnes & McDunnough (1916) listed the wingspan as 20 mm.

Identification

Range

California. (4)

Habitat

Coastal.

Season

Adults are most common from May to July. (5)

See Also

Perizoma custodiata

Perizoma costiguttata

Archirhoe neomexicana

Aplocera plagiata

In tribe Chesiadini check out this species:

Carsia sororiata

Print References

Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough, 1916. Geometridae. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America. 3(1): 24, plate 3, fig 20.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	James Halliday McDunnough (1877 -1962) A biographical obituary and bibliography Douglas C. Ferguson . 1962. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 16(4): 209-228.

2.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

3.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

4.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 30 June, 2013 - 10:23am
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 3 May, 2023 - 3:00pm

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