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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 » Boarmiini » Orthofidonia » Marbled Wave - Hodges#6428 (Orthofidonia tinctaria)

Species Orthofidonia tinctaria - Marbled Wave - Hodges#6428

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

6428 Orthofidonia tinctaria - Orthofidonia tinctaria

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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 Boarmiini

Genus Orthofidonia

Species tinctaria (Marbled Wave - Hodges#6428)

Hodges Number

6428

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Orthofidonia tinctaria (Walker, 1860)

Cleora tinctaria Walker 1860

Identification

Range

British Columbia to Nova Scotia, south to Georgia and Missouri. (1), (2), (3), (4)

Season

The main flight period appears to be April to August. (1)

Food

The host plants include Viburnum sp. (5)

Print References

Walker, F. 1860. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Part 7. British Museum, London. p. 486.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (1)

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Butterflies and Moths of North America (6)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	Annotated list of Ontario Lepidoptera J. C. E. Riotte. 1992. Royal Ontario Museum 1-208.

3.	Assessment of species diversity in the Montane Cordillera Ecozone Scudder G.G.E., Smith I.M. (eds.). 1998. Burlington: Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network.

4.	An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada Gregory R. Pohl, Gary G. Anweiler, B. Christian Schmidt, Norbert G. Kondla. 2010. ZooKeys 38: 1–549.

5.	Host records for Lepidoptera reared in Eastern North America D. C. Ferguson. 1975. United States Department of Agriculture 1521: 1-45.

6.	Butterflies of North America

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 19 August, 2013 - 1:42pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Fyn Kynd
Last updated 10 August, 2019 - 3:04pm

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