MPG (species pages only) MPG (entire website) Entire Web

Digital Guide to Moth Identification

Geometridae 91a1311 – 6946   Somatolophia pallescens McDunnough, 1940

Photographs are the copyrighted property of each photographer listed. Contact individual photographers for permission to use for any purpose.

- © Charles W. Melton Large Map & Chart Report Errors About Maps

Distribution: UT, CO, AZ, NM - Rindge (1980) Description/ Field Marks: See Rindge (1980), Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 165: 314; figs. 9, 28-31, 35. Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: pallescens McDunnough, 1940 (Somatolophia) - MONA 1983: 6946; TL: Greer Road,White Mountains, Apache Co., AZ. obliterata Warren, 1904 (Somatolophia); TL: Glenwood Springs,Garfield Co., CO.

References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.)

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: Identifications often erroneous; DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; many specimens not sequenced. McDunnough, J.H., 1940. New North American Geometridae with notes, III. The Canadian Entomologist, 72(5): 90-103. Rindge, F.H., 1980. A revision of the moth genus Somatolophia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 165(3): 295-333. Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at iNaturalist

- DNA - © Charles W. Melton - DNA - © Charles W. Melton - © Jim Eckert - © Steve Morris

35mm – © Jim Vargo

© Carol Davis LG

Moth Photographers Group  at the  Mississippi Entomological Museum  at the  Mississippi State University

Send suggestions, or submit photographs to Webmaster — Moth Photographers Group

Database design and scripting support provided by Mike Boone