Species Glenoides lenticuligera - Hodges#6444

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

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 lenticuligera (Glenoides lenticuligera - Hodges#6444)

Hodges Number

6444

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Glenoides lenticuligera A. Blanchard, 1973

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

Blanchard, A. 1973 listed the forewing length:

♂ 7.2-8.0 mm (average 7.7 mm).

♀ 8.0-8.8 mm. ( average 8.4 mm ).

Identification

Blanchard (1973) stated "The new species is quite close to Glenoides texanaria, the only other taxon in the genus; the pattern of maculation is nearly the same, but the transverse lines of texanaria are much better defined and its background is nearly clean of scattered brown scales and dark blotches; G. texanaria is appreciably larger; the unmistakable differences between the two species are however in the genitalia: the vesica of the male texanaria is unarmed and the postvaginal plate of its female presents an elongated sclerotization which does not exist in G. lenticuligera."

Range

Southern Texas.

Holotype ♂, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Hidalgo Co., Texas, 15 February 1971, deposited in the National Museum of Natural History.

See Also

Glenoides texanaria

Print References

Blanchard, A. 1973. A new species of the genus Glenoides McDunnough (Geometridae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 27: 141-143.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

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

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 January, 2014 - 9:39am

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