Holochroa

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
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

The MONA or Hodges number for Holochroa dissociarius is 6773.[6]

Subspecies

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
  1. "Holochroa dissociarius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  2. "Holochroa dissociarius species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  3. "Holochroa dissociarius". GBIF. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  4. "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.
  6. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Holochroa dissociarius". Retrieved April 23, 2018.

Further reading
  • 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. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 17. 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.


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