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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Sterrhinae » Cosymbiini » Semaeopus » Semaeopus marginata - Hodges#7145 (Semaeopus marginata)

Species Semaeopus marginata - Hodges#7145

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Semaeopus marginata (Schaus) - Semaeopus marginata - female moth - Semaeopus marginata moth - Semaeopus marginata moth - Semaeopus marginata Semaeopus marginata - female Semaeopus marginata Semaeopus marginata Semaeopus marginata - 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 Sterrhinae
Tribe Cosymbiini
Genus Semaeopus
Species marginata (Semaeopus marginata - Hodges#7145)
Hodges Number
7145
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Semaeopus marginata (Schaus, 1901)
Charommataea marginata Schaus, 1901
Numbers
There are five species of the genus Semaeopus in America north of Mexico. (1), (2)
Size
Schaus (1901) listed the wingspan as 25-29 mm.
Moth Photographers Group displays two wingspans of 21 mm. (2)
Identification
Similar to Semaeopus ella, but generally plainer yellow, more mottled, and with a collapsed forewing discal spot. Females have a distinct dark wing margin.
Range
Southern Texas; Mexico. (3),(2)
Print References
Schaus, W.M. 1901. New species of Geometridae from Tropical America: Part 1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 27: 191.
Schaus, 1902. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 68: 905.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Types - USNM
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.Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 3C: Micro-Moths and Geometroids
Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2008. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. 30 pp., 18 plates.
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 8 September, 2013 - 1:28am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, James Bailey
Last updated 26 March, 2022 - 5:59pm

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