|
[Home]
[Up]
[Geometrinae- Emeralds]
[Geometrinae - Identifying Marks]
[Immature Stages]
[Seasonal Polyphenism]
[Other Geometrid Subfamilies]
[Related Links]
| |
Lophochorista lesteraria (Grossbeck, 1910). [7069]
|
 |
|
Lophochorista lesteraria,
cotype, Grossbeck, collected Santa Catalina Mtns, AZ, collection
of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). |
 |
Above: Lophochorista sp.,
collection of Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Specimen collected
June-1954, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. Genus det. by L. Pitkin. This
specimen probably is not L. lesteraria, but rather one of the
Mexican species.
|
|
Lophochorista is a genus of
distinctively marked moths related to
Eueana,
of which only one species has been described from the USA. The image
above depicts a Mexican Lophochorista species. It may be compared
to the image of L. lesteraria from the Smithsonian on Bruce
Walsh's website, as seen here:
Lophochorista lesteraria Note also the Lophochorista specimen
collected by Howard Byrne, also depicted on Bruce Walsh's site:
Lophochorista sp.
Below: Lophochorista calliope
(left) from Mexico and Lophochorista ockendi (right) from
Ecuador, both specimens from the natioanl Musuem of Natural History
(Smithsonian) |
 |
 |
|
