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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 » Drepanulatrix » Drepanulatrix hulstii - Hodges#6683 (Drepanulatrix hulstii)

Species Drepanulatrix hulstii - Hodges#6683

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

Geometrid Moth - Drepanulatrix hulstii - female

Geometrid - Drepanulatrix hulstii - 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 Drepanulatrix

Species hulstii (Drepanulatrix hulstii - Hodges#6683)

Hodges Number

6683

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Drepanulatrix hulstii (Dyar, 1903)

original combination Catopyrrha hulstii Dyar, 1903

synonym Deilinia lenitaria Grossbeck 1912 (description)

* phylogenetic sequence #197350

Explanation of Names

named in honor of George Duryea Hulst

Size

wingspan 25-38 mm(1)

Identification

Adults - variable in color, ranging from light or dark gray, tan, cream, fawn, pinkish, or red brown, more or less irrorate with orange brown, dark brown, or black scales. See full description(1)

Range

Arizona and California to Oregon and Nevada(1)

Print References

Grossbeck, John A. (1912) Miscellaneous Notes and Descriptions of North American Geometridæ Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp.282-292 (view synonym Deilinia lenitaria)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the geometrid moths formerly assigned to Drepanulatrix (Lepidoptera) Frederick H. Rindge. 1949. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 94(5).

Contributed by Joyce Gross on 16 October, 2006 - 1:01am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 19 June, 2022 - 9:37am

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