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Melanolophia imitata (Western Carpet)

Synonyms: Boarmia imitata

Wikipedia Abstract

Melanolophia imitata, the western carpet or green-striped forest looper, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from southern California, north to Alaska and east to extreme south-western Alberta. The wingspan is 34-40 mm. Adults are on wing from March to June. There is one generation per year. The larvae feed on the foliage of various conifer trees, but preferring Douglas fir, Tsuga and Abies species.
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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Actia interrupta[2]
Compsilura concinnata (Tachina fly)[2]

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1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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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