Tornos scolopacinaria

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Tornos scolopacinaria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Boarmiini
Genus: Tornos
Species:
T. scolopacinaria
Binomial name
Tornos scolopacinaria
(Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1858)

Tornos scolopacinaria, the dimorphic gray, is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. [1] [2] [3] [4] It is found in North America. [1]

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The MONA or Hodges number for Tornos scolopacinaria is 6486. [5]

The male's wings are grayish-brown with a dark round discal spot on the fore wing. The female's wings are mainly yellowish-gray with dark gray outer margins. The female has a dark fore wing discal spot which is larger than the male's. Both sexes have a checkered fringe. The wingspan measures 2.1 to 2.9 cm. [6] The moth flies from February to November. [6]

The moths are known to use species of aster and tickseed plants as hosts. [6]

Subspecies

These three subspecies belong to the species Tornos scolopacinaria:

Data sources: i = ITIS, [1] c = Catalogue of Life, [2] g = GBIF, [3] b = Bugguide.net [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tornos scolopacinaria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  2. 1 2 "Tornos scolopacinaria species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  3. 1 2 "Tornos scolopacinaria". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  4. 1 2 "Tornos scolopacinaria Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  5. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Tornos scolopacinaria" . Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  6. 1 2 3 Charles V. Covell, Jr. (2005). Moths of Eastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, VA. ISBN   1-884549-21-7

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