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Species Euphyia implicata - Hodges#7400

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Larentiinae
Tribe Xanthorhoini
Genus Euphyia
Species implicata (Euphyia implicata - Hodges#7400)
Hodges Number
7400
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Euphyia implicata (Guenée, [1858])
Numbers
Subspecies:
Euphyia implicata multilineata (Southern California)
Euphyia implicata grandiosa (Arizona)
Size
Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length 14-16 mm. (1)
Range
Powell & Opler (2009) reported the range to include southern California(2), including the Channel Islands, south to Baja California Norte. (1)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona has the species listed with photo. (3)
Habitat
Loose sand habitat. (1)
Season
Powell & Opler (2009) reported the adults fly throughout the year. (1)
Food
Cockerell (1941), Powell (1978)(4), and Powell & Opler (2009)(1) reported the larvae feed on several Abronia species (sand verbenas).
See Also
Archirhoe neomexicana

Xanthorhoe columelloides


Zenophleps obscurata


Perizoma epictata
Print References
Cockerell, T.D.A., 1941. Observations on plants and insects in north-western Baja California, Mexico, with descriptions of new bees. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 9, p. 351.
Comstock, J.A., 1940: Notes on the early stages of Euphyia implicata, Gn. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 38(1939): 198-200.
Powell, J.A., 1978. Survey of Lepidoptera inhabiting three dune systems in the California Desert. Bureau of Land Management, California Desert District Office, Table 1. (4)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 33, fig. 1; p. 227. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (5)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
University of California, Berkeley
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (3)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
3.Moths of Southeast Arizona
4. Survey of Lepidoptera inhabiting three dune systems in the California Desert.
J. A. Powell. 1978. U. S. Bureau of Land Management .
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 April, 2014 - 10:30pm
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi, Steve Morris
Last updated 23 April, 2023 - 8:54am

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