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Notes on Life Histories of Some Ennominae (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. C. McGuffin
W. C. McGuffin
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Officer, Forest Zoology Laboratory, Calgary, Alta.
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The life histories of many of the Geometridae are not well known; those of a few economic species in the Ennominae have been worked out but many more remain to be studied. Life-history notes on the following seven species are presented: Semiothisa granitata Gn., S. sexmaculata Pack., Eufidonia discospilata Wlk., Melanolophia canadaria Gn., Campaea perlata Gn., Selenia alciphearia Wlk., and Caripeta divisata Wlk. The larvae of all these have been described; those of Selenia and Campaea were described by Dyar (1899 and 1903) and the remainder by McGuffin (1943a, 1943b, 1944, 1945, and 1947).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 87 , Issue 1 , January 1955 , pp. 41 - 44
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1955

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