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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 » Sericosema » Sericosema wilsonensis - Hodges#6674 (Sericosema wilsonensis)

Species Sericosema wilsonensis - Hodges#6674

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

Wilsons Fawn Moth - Sericosema wilsonensis - female

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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 Sericosema

Species wilsonensis (Sericosema wilsonensis - Hodges#6674)

Hodges Number

6674

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sericosema wilsonensis Cassino & Swett, 1922

Size

Cassino & Swett (1922) listed a wingspan of 30 mm.

Identification

Cassino & Swett (1922) original description is online in the print references.

Specimen determined by DNA analysis (BOLD). (1)

Range

California and Arizona to British Columbia. (2)

Holotype from Mt. Wilson, California in July.

Season

The main flight period appears to be April to September. (2)

Food

Arctostaphylos patula Greene (Greenleaf manzanita).

Print References

Cassino, S.E. & L.W. Swett, 1922. Two new species of Sericosema. The Lepidopterist 3(8): 151.

Valenti, M.A. & Zack, R.S. 1995. Lepidoptera associated with greenleaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos patula E. Greene (Ericaceae), in Shasta County, California. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 97: 876. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (1)

Works Cited

1.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Lepidoptera associated with greenleaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos patula (E. Greene) Ericaceae, in Shasta County, California. M. A. Valenti; R. S. Zack. 1995. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 97: 872-878.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 May, 2014 - 9:02pm
Last updated 13 May, 2014 - 12:38am

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