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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 » Macariini » Digrammia » Hollow-spotted Angle - Hodges#6405 (Digrammia gnophosaria)

Species Digrammia gnophosaria - Hollow-spotted Angle - Hodges#6405

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

Hodges #6405 - Hollow-spotted Angle Moth - Digrammia gnophosaria

Hollow-spotted Angle - Hodges#6405 - Digrammia gnophosaria

Geometrid moth sp? - Digrammia gnophosaria

Hollow-spotted Angle? - Digrammia gnophosaria

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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 Macariini

Genus Digrammia

Species gnophosaria (Hollow-spotted Angle - Hodges#6405)

Hodges Number

6405

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Digrammia gnophosaria (Guenée, [1858])

original combination Tephrina gnophosaria Guenée, [1858]

synonyms:

Camptogramma infectaria Walker, 1862

Macaria reductaria Walker, 1863

Semiothisa caesiaria Hulst, 1888

Macaria da Dyar, 1916

formerly in Semiothisa which was transferred in part to Digrammia

Size

wingspan 18 - 23mm (1)

Identification

Specimen identified by DNA analysis:

Range

Ontario to Florida, west to Wisconsin and Texas (1)

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Season

Adults usually fly April through September. In Florida they start earlier.

Food

larval host is Salix - willow (Moths of North Carolina); Covell incudes larch (1)

Life Cycle

Larva, final instar larva, pupa, adult

Print References

Ferguson, D. C., 2008. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2: p. 320; pl. 8.20-21.(2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - collection map and photos of pinned adults.

iNaturalist

Moths of North Carolina

Maryland Biodiversity Project

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2005.

2.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 17.2, Geometroidea, Geometridae, Ennominae. Douglas C. Ferguson . 2008. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Tony on 19 October, 2006 - 12:24pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ted Kropiewnicki, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy, JoAnneRusso, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 24 January, 2024 - 5:40pm

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