Ennomos magnaria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Ennomos
- Species
- Ennomos magnaria
- Scientific Name
- Ennomos magnaria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ennomos magnaria
Ennomos magnaria, the maple spanworm moth, notched wing moth, notched-wing geometer or notch-wing moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1858. It is found from coast to coast in southern Canada and the northern United States, south in the east to Florida and Louisiana and in the west to California.
The wingspan is 43–60 mm. Adults resemble an autumn leaf. Adults are on wing from July to early November in one generation per year. Adults are nocturnal and may rest on buildings during the day.
The larvae feed on the leaves of Alnus, Fraxinus, Tilia, Betula, Ulmus, Carya, Acer, Quercus, and Populus species.
...Ennomos magnaria in languages:
- English
- Maple Spanworm
- English
- Maple Spanworm Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ennomos alniaria
- Ennomos autumnaria
- Ennomos discigera
- Ennomos duercki
- Ennomos effractaria
- Ennomos erosaria
- Ennomos fraxineti
- Ennomos fuscantaria
- Ennomos infidelis
- Ennomos kasyi
- Ennomos lissochila
- Ennomos magnaria
- Ennomos nephotropa
- Ennomos quercaria
- Ennomos quercinaria
- Ennomos sinuosa
- Ennomos subsignaria
- Ennomos vartianae
- Ennomos zandi































































































































































