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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 » Pterospoda » Pterospoda opuscularia - Hodges#6707 (Pterospoda opuscularia)

Species Pterospoda opuscularia - Hodges#6707

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Moth - Chiricahua Mtns - Pterospoda opuscularia - male

Pterospoda opuscularia? - Pterospoda opuscularia - female

Arizona Moth for ID - Pterospoda opuscularia - male

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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 Pterospoda

Species opuscularia (Pterospoda opuscularia - Hodges#6707)

Hodges Number

6707

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pterospoda opuscularia (Hulst, 1887)

Aspilates opuscularia Hulst, 1887 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence #911128.00

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin meaning "small or petty work (diminutive of opus)."

Size

Wingspan about 30-34 mm. (2), (1)

Identification

Adult - color highly variable, from tan to dark red.

Range

Records from California, Arizona and New Mexico. (2), (3), (1), (4)

Food

Larvae feed on plants in the Buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). (5)

Print References

Holland, W.J., 1915. The Moth Book: A Popular Guide to a knowledge of the Moths of North America. Doubleday, Page & Company. 343-344, Pl.44, f.18f. (4)

Hulst, G.D., 1887. New Species of Geometridae, No.3. Entomologica Americana 2(11): 210. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD Systems

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Works Cited

1.	New species of Geometridae, No. 3. George D. Hulst. 1887. Entomologica Americana 2(10): 185-192; (cont.) Entomologica Americana 2(11): 210-212.

2.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	The Moth Book W. J. Holland. 1922. Doubleday, Page & Company.

5.	A revision of the red-brown Caberine Geometrids of the southeastern United States (Geometridae: Caberini). Douglas C. Ferguson. 2009. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera .

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 23 August, 2013 - 10:57am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 29 January, 2019 - 9:32am

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