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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 » Stergamataea » Stergamataea delicatum - Hodges#6710 (Stergamataea delicatum)

Species Stergamataea delicatum - Hodges#6710

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Stergamataea sp.? - Stergamataea delicatum

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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 Stergamataea

Species delicatum (Stergamataea delicatum - Hodges#6710)

Hodges Number

6710

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Stergamataea delicatum (Hulst, 1900)

ssp. a. delicatum (Hulst, 1900) (Selidosema)

ssp. b. dolliata Grossbeck, 1908 (Stergamataea)

Numbers

2 species in North America north of Mexico.

Size

Male WS 38mm, Female WS 42mm

Identification

Head, thorax, abdomen and ground color of wings dark flesh color with a brownish cast, the wings sprinkled over with dark scales, especially in the outer areas. See original description listed below for a complicated description of blackish brown markings.

Range

Western Texas to California and Idaho.

See Also

Stergamataea inornata differs from S. delicatum - "color of background is pale yellow and in cross lines being broad and incomplete, not fine and continuous.

Print References

Journal of the New YOrk Entomological Society, Vol 16 (1908), page 30. New Moths of the Family Geometridae by John A. Grossbeck Biodiversity Library

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (1)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 January, 2014 - 2:36pm
Additional contributions by A. Hendrickson, Steve Morris
Last updated 25 May, 2022 - 9:13pm

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