Iridopsis clivinaria

Iridopsis clivinaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Iridopsis
Species:	I. clivinaria
Binomial name
	Iridopsis clivinaria; (Guenée, [1858]) [1]
Synonyms
	Anacamptodes clivinaria;

Last updated April 09, 2019

Iridopsis clivinaria, the mountain mahogany looper moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from British Columbia south to California and east to Idaho, Colorado and Arizona.^[2]

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.

British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 5.016 million as of 2018, it is Canada's third-most populous province.

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The City and County of San Francisco is both the country's second-most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.

The length of the forewings is 22–25 mm. Adults have triangular forewing with a pale grey strip along the costa but medium brownish-grey in the lower and outer portions. They are on wing from March to July in one generation per year.

The larvae mainly feed on the leaves of Cercocarpus species and Purshia tridentata , but have also been recorded on Prunus species and Ceanothus velutinus . Young larvae skeletonise the leaves of their host plant. They are generally greyish-brown (although there are four colour morphs: black, gray, reddish, and yellow) and mimic twigs. Larvae can be found from July to August, after which they overwinter as a pupa in the soil.

Cercocarpus, commonly known as mountain mahogany, is a small genus of five or six species of nitrogen-fixing flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae. They are native to the western United States and northern Mexico, where they grow in chaparral and semidesert habitats and climates, often at high altitudes. Several are found in the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.

Purshia tridentata, with the common name bitterbrush, is a shrub in the genus Purshia of the family Rosaceae. It is native to mountainous areas of western North America.

Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the fruits plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and almonds.

Subspecies

Iridopsis clivinaria clivinaria
Iridopsis clivinaria impiaRindge, 1966
Iridopsis clivinaria profanata(Barnes & McDunnough, 1917)

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