Google
WWW MPG website only

Digital Guide to Moth Identification

Geometridae
91a0851 – 6454.1   Glena kirkwoodaria Sperry, 1952
Distribution Data for Glena kirkwoodaria
Large Map & Chart Report Errors About Maps
Distribution: USA: AZ, southeastern NM (Rindge 1965).
Description/
Field Marks:
See Sperry (1952:72) and Rindge (1965:301).
Similar Species:
  • Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy:
  • kirkwoodaria Sperry 1952 (Glena); Type locality: Holotype: Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mts., AZ
  • Taxonomic Notes: Glena kirkwoodaria Sperry, 1952, n. stat., is elevated to full species from subspecies of Glena mcdunnougharia Sperry, 1952 (Schmidt & McGuinness in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023). Originally described by Sperry as a local variety [of interpunctata], Rindge would later incorrectly changed the authorship and date when he elevated it to subspecies.
    References
    • Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.
    • Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN: BOLD:AAF9439 - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification.
    • Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.), 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California, xiv + 580 pp. (order).
    • Rindge, F.H., 1965. A revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Glena (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 129(3): 267-306.
    • Sperry, J.L., 1952. Notes on the genus Glena Hulst and description of new species (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 51: 72.
    Glena kirkwoodaria
    LG(cc) CBG Photog. Grp.

    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