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Nemoria bistriaria (Red-fringed Emerald)

Synonyms: Aplodes brunnearia; Aplodes rubrolinearia

Wikipedia Abstract

Nemoria bistriaria, the red-fringed emerald or two-striped emerald, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from New Brunswick to Florida, west to Texas, north to Ontario. The wingspan is about 22 mm. Adults are on wing from March to October in the south and from May to August in the north. There are at least two generations per year. The species occurs in a seasonal brown form where the green colour of the wings is entirely replaced by a light coffee colour.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.472 inches (.012 m)

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1Auditory influences on the flight behaviour of moths in a Nearctic site. I. Flight tendency, Scott B. Morrill and James H. Fullard, CAN. J. ZOOL. VOL. 70, 1992, pp. 1097-1101
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0