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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 » Glenoides » Texas Gray Moth - Hodges#6443 (Glenoides texanaria)

Species Glenoides texanaria - Texas Gray Moth - Hodges#6443

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Glenoides
Species texanaria (Texas Gray Moth - Hodges#6443)
Hodges Number
6443
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Glenoides texanaria (Hulst, 1888)
McDunnough (1920) moved to Glenoides.
Tephrosia texanaria Hulst, 1888
Numbers
There are two species of the genus listed for America north of Mexico. (1), (2)
Glenoides lenticuligera A. Blanchard, 1973
Glenoides texanaria (Hulst, 1888)
Size
Wingspan 16-24 mm.
Rindge (1973) stated "There appears to be some variation in the size of adult G. texanaria, being apparently correlated with the time of flight. Moths captured in late fall and early spring larger and appear somewhat darker than those taken from May through September."
Hulst (1888) reported a wingspan of 24 mm.
Identification
Hulst (1888) original description in print references.
Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)

Genitalia:
♀
♂
Range
This species has expanded its range northward in recent decades and is now found as far north as Massachusetts. It is common on Block Island, RI, where it is bivoltine with flights in summer and fall, but it was not recorded there in surveys from 1996 to 1999.(4)
Heppner (2003) reported the range to include Virginia to Florida(5), Missouri to Texas.(6)
Holotype collected in "Texas".
Season
Heppner (2003) reported January to April; June to December in Florida. (6)
Food
Feeds on lichens.
See Also
Glenoides lenticuligera
Print References
Brou Jr., Vernon A. 2007. Glenoides texanaria (Hulst) in Louisiana. Southern Lepidopterists' News 29: 148. 159. PDF
Hulst, G.D. 1888. New species of Geometridae (No. 4). Entomologica Americana. 3: 216.
McDunnough (7), J. 1920. Studies in North American Cleorini (Geometridae). Canadian Department of Agriculture Bulletin. 18.
Rindge, F.H., 1973. On Glenoides texanaria Geometridae with designation of the lectotype. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 272: 140. PDF
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Butterflies and moths of North America (BAMONA) (8)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Mothguide.com
Fontenelle Nature Search
Works Cited
1.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
4.Block Island Moths
5.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
6.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
7.James Halliday McDunnough (1877 -1962) A biographical obituary and bibliography
Douglas C. Ferguson . 1962. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 16(4): 209-228.
8.Butterflies of North America
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 17 October, 2006 - 8:03pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, George Smiley, JoAnneRusso, Blocky, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 29 August, 2023 - 4:08pm

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