Venusia pearsalli | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Venusia |
Species: | V. pearsalli |
Binomial name | |
Venusia pearsalli | |
Synonyms | |
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Venusia pearsalli, or Pearsall's carpet moth, is a moth in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1906. It is found in western North America, from Alaska, Alberta and British Columbia, through Washington and Oregon to California. [2]
The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are pale grey with rows of narrow black lines. Adults are on wing in spring. [3]
The larvae feed on Acer circinatum , Alnus incana tenuifolia , Alnus rubra , Alnus viridis sinuata , Betula , Cornus nuttalli , Quercus garryana , Crataegus , Malus , Populus tremuloides , Populus trichocarpa and Salix . [4]
The engrailed and small engrailed are moths of the family Geometridae found from the British Isles through central and eastern Europe to the Russian Far East and Kazakhstan. The western Mediterranean and Asia Minor and the Caucasus represent the southern limit of the distribution. In the north, the distribution area ends at the Arctic Circle. It also occurs in North America. Debate exists as to whether they make up one species, or whether E. crepuscularia actually refers only to the small engrailed, with the engrailed proper being separable as E. bistortata.
Blomer's rivulet is a species of the family Geometridae of moths, in the subfamily Larentiinae which includes the carpet moth and pugs.
The cream wave is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809. It is found in forest and woodland regions, feeding on grasses and small plants such as dandelion.
Chloroclysta siterata, the red-green carpet, is a moth in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767.
Lobophora is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by John Curtis in 1825.
Nomenia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Richard F. Pearsall in 1905. The genus was previously treated as a junior synonym of Venusia.
Prorella is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918.
Stamnodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1858.
Venusia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by John Curtis in 1839.
Hypagyrtis unipunctata, the one-spotted variant moth or white spot, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809. It can be found from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Texas, northwest to British Columbia on the North American continent, and is also found in Eurasia.
Dysstroma citrata, the dark marbled carpet or northern marbled carpet, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. It is found across the Holarctic ecozone and has been reported from India.
Venusia cambrica, the Welsh wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Europe, western and central Siberia, Altai, Transbaikalia, the Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula, Japan and in North America, where it can be found across Canada from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia, south in the west to California, south in the east to Georgia.
Asthenini is a tribe of geometer moths under subfamily Larentiinae first described by Warren in 1893. The tribe has been combined with Eupitheciini in the past, most notably by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in his work The Moths of Borneo.
Leucobrephos brephoides, the scarce infant moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1857. It is found in North America from Yukon to Labrador and south to New York and southern Alberta and British Columbia.
Eupithecia columbiata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1904. It is found in North America from eastern Newfoundland and Labrador to Vancouver Island, south to North Carolina in the east and Colorado in the west.
Eupithecia segregata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Pearsall in 1910. It is found in the US states of Oregon, Arizona and California.
Nomenia duodecimlineata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1873. It is found in western North America, from British Columbia to California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
Nomenia obsoleta is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Louis W. Swett in 1916. It is found in western North America, from British Columbia, through Washington and Oregon to California.
Venusia comptaria, the brown-shaded carpet moth, is a moth in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1860. It is found in eastern North America, from Florida to Newfoundland, west to Manitoba. The habitat consists of woodlands.
Stamnoctenis pearsalli is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America.