Nemoria mimosaria
Nemoria mimosaria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Tribe: | Nemoriini |
Genus: | Nemoria |
Species: | N. mimosaria |
Binomial name | |
Nemoria mimosaria (Guenée, 1857) | |
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The White-fringed Emerald or Flanged Looper (Nemoria mimosaria) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from Nova Scotia to south-eastern Alberta, south to Virginia, Illinois and Texas.
The wingspan is about 26 mm. Adults are on wing from mid to late June.
The larvae feed on various deciduous shrubs and trees and conifer trees, including Betula papyrifera, Abies balsamifera, Salix, Alnus and Myrica asplenifolia.