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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 » Ourapterygini » Sabulodes » Sabulodes aegrotata - Hodges#6995 (Sabulodes aegrotata)

Species Sabulodes aegrotata - Hodges#6995

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Day 133, Moth #4, face - Sabulodes aegrotata Sunset Bay Caterpillar - Sabulodes aegrotata #40 - Sabulodes aegrotata Calla Lily & Moth - Sabulodes aegrotata pyraustine cambrid moth - Sabulodes aegrotata Sabulodes aegrotata Unidentified moth - Sabulodes aegrotata Geometrid Moth - Sabulodes aegrotata
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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 Ourapterygini
Genus Sabulodes
Species aegrotata (Sabulodes aegrotata - Hodges#6995)
Hodges Number
6995
Other Common Names
Omnivorous Looper
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sabulodes aegrotata (Guenée, [1858])
Tetracis aegrotata Guenee, 1857
Size
Forewing length 17 to 26 mm. (1)
Identification
Forewing variable in color, ranging from cream or pale yellow to ochraceous, brown or blackish brown (melanic form); maculation absent in some specimens; it is the only Sabulodes known to have a melanic form. (1)
Range
Coastal western North America, from northwestern Baja California to northwestern Oregon (1)
Season
year round
Food
"The larvae feed on a large variety of herbacious and woody broad-leaved angiosperms. Plants in 27 familes have been reported as hosts, and the species' feeding occasionally causes damage to to orchard trees such as avocado, citrus, and walnuts."(2)
Life Cycle
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Print References
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl. 31, fig. 3; p. 219.(2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Sabulodes (Lepidoptera, Geometridae).
Frederick H. Rindge. 1978. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 160(4): 193-292, f.1-154, tab.1.
2.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 19 October, 2006 - 1:41pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, Abigail Parker, Randy Hardy
Last updated 24 September, 2014 - 4:23pm

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