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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 » Ourapterygini » Philtraea » Philtraea paucimacula - Hodges#6850 (Philtraea paucimacula)

Species Philtraea paucimacula - Hodges#6850

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

Philtraea paucimacula - Hodges #6850 - Philtraea paucimacula - female

Please help us to identify this moth. - Philtraea paucimacula

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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 Philtraea

Species paucimacula (Philtraea paucimacula - Hodges#6850)

Hodges Number

6850

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Philtraea paucimacula Barnes & McDunnough(1), 1918 (2)

Philtraea elegantaria paucimacula Barnes & McDunnough, 1918

Range

Texas to Arizona.

Holotype collected San Benito, Texas.

Season

Collection records from April, June to September.

See Also

Philtraea monillata (eastern range)

Grotella tricolor

Print References

Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough, 1918. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America. The Review Press, 4: 154.

Buckett, J.S., 1970 (1971). Revision of the Nearctic genus Philtraea Hulst, with notes on biology and the descriptions of new species (Geometridae). Journal of Research on Lepidoptera 9(1): 29-64. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Friends' Central School Lepidoptera Research

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

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.	Revision of the Nearctic genus Philtraea Hulst, with notes on biology and the descriptions of new species (Geometridae). John S. Buckett. 1970. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, 9(1): 29-64.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 15 July, 2013 - 4:10pm
Last updated 26 April, 2014 - 3:04pm

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