Dalcerides ingenita

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Dalcerides ingenita
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Dalceridae
Genus: Dalcerides
Species:
D. ingenita
Binomial name
Dalcerides ingenita
(H. Edwards, 1882)
Synonyms
  • Artaxa ingenitaH. Edwards, 1882

Dalcerides ingenita is a moth in the family Dalceridae. It was described by Henry Edwards in 1882. [1] It is found in the US from southeastern Arizona, north through the mountains to Flagstaff. It is also found in southwestern Texas and Mexico.

Adults are on wing from late April to September in Arizona and from July to December in Mexico. In Arizona Dalcerides ingenita, along with the similar geometrid Eubaphe unicolor , is part of a mimetic complex modeled on Lycus loripes and Lycus simulans .

The larvae feed on Arctostaphylos pungens , Quercus emoryi and Quercus oblongifolia . [2]

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Dalcerides mesoa is a moth in the family Dalceridae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1887. It is found in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.

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Dalcerides rebella is a moth in the family Dalceridae. It was described by Schaus in 1911. It is found in Costa Rica and Ecuador. The habitat consists of tropical wet and premontane wet forests.

Dalcerides bicolor is a moth in the family Dalceridae. It was described by Schaus in 1910. It is found in Costa Rica.

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Dalcerides flavetta is a moth in the family Dalceridae. It was described by Schaus in 1905. It is found in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and northern Brazil. The habitat consists of tropical wet, tropical moist, tropical premontane wet, tropical premontane moist, subtropical moist and tropical dry forests.

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References

  1. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Dalceridae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
  2. Miller, S.E., 1994: "Systematics of the Neotropical moth family Dalceridae (Lepidoptera)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 153 (4): 1-495.