Species Triphosa bipectinata - Hodges#7288

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · 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 Larentiinae

Tribe Hydriomenini

Genus Triphosa (Tissue Moths)

Species bipectinata (Triphosa bipectinata - Hodges#7288)

Hodges Number

7288

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Triphosa bipectinata Barnes & McDunnough(1), 1917

Size

Barnes & McDunnough (1917) listed a wingspan of 35 mm.

Identification

Barnes & McDunnough (1917) original description is presented below and online at the link in the print references.

"Palpi upturned to about level of front; antennae bipectinate; thorax and primaries light shiny gray-brown, the latter crossed by numerous darker undulate lines; basal and median areas darker than the remainder of wing; postmedian area with the cross lines merely marked by dots and slight arrow marks on the veins. Secondaries rather uniform smoky with faint traces of the lines of primaries; outer margin of both wings faintly crenulate and marked by dots on each side of the veins. Beneath smoky with scarcely a trace of the maculation of the upper side showing through."

Range

Arizona and southern California to western Colorado.

Holotype ♂ from Palmerlee, Cochise County, Arizona.

See Also

Archirhoe indefinata

Monostoecha semipectinata

Print References

Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough, 1917. New species of North American Lepidoptera. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 3: 225.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

1.	James Halliday McDunnough (1877 -1962) A biographical obituary and bibliography Douglas C. Ferguson . 1962. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 16(4): 209-228.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 4 September, 2014 - 8:07pm
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi, Steve Morris
Last updated 31 August, 2022 - 2:31pm

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