Holochroa is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae. Its only species, Holochroa dissociarius,[1][2][3][4] is found in North America.[1] The species was described by George Duryea Hulst in 1887 and he described the genus nine years later in 1896.[5]

Holochroa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Holochroa
Hulst, 1896
Species:
H. dissociarius
Binomial name
Holochroa dissociarius
(Hulst, 1887)
Synonyms
  • Gloduria Dyar, 1924

Subspecies edit

There are two subspecies:

  • Holochroa dissociarius dissociarius g
  • Holochroa dissociarius varia Rindge, 1961 c g b

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = BugGuide[4]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Holochroa dissociarius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Holochroa dissociarius species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Holochroa dissociarius". GBIF. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Holochroa dissociarius Species Information". BugGuide. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  5. ^ Savela, Markku. "Holochroa Hulst, 1896". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 2, 2019.

Further reading edit

  • Beadle, David; Leckie, Seabrooke (2012). Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 0547238487.
  • Covell, Charles V. Jr. (2005). A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication Number 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 1-884549-21-7.
  • Grote, Aug.R.; Robinson, C.T. (1868). List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
  • Heppner, J.B. (2003). "Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog" (PDF). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. 17. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. ISSN 0066-8036. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  • Hodges, Ronald W., ed. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. ISBN 9780860960164.
  • Pitkin, Linda M. (2002). "Neotropical ennomine moths: a review of the genera (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 135 (2–3): 121–401. ISSN 0024-4082.
  • Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
  • Powell, Jerry A.; Opler, Paul A. (2009). Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520251977.
  • Yamamoto, Satoshi; Sota, Teiji (2007). "Phylogeny of the Geometridae and the evolution of winter moths inferred from a simultaneous analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44: 711–723. ISSN 1055-7903.