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HEMITHEA AESTIVARIA, A GEOMETRID NEW TO NORTH AMERICA, ESTABLISHED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (LEPIDOPTERA: GEOMETRIDAE: GEOMETRINAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Miktat Doǧanlar  and
Bryan P. Beirne
Miktat Doǧanlar
Affiliation:
Pestology Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6
Bryan P. Beirne
Affiliation:
Pestology Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6
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Hemithea aestivaria, “the common emerald” in Britain, is common throughout most of Europe and in Eastern Asia. The larva feeds on many herbaceous plants before hibernation and on a wide variety of woody plants in the spring.

Forty of the distinctively-marked larvae were collected on cherry, apple, wild plum, and species of Rubus and Crataegus at Burnaby, New Westminister, and Langley, in British Columbia, between 1.IV.78 and 18.V.78. A sample reared produced a male that was identified by Dr. K. B. Bolte, Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, as of Hemithea aestivaria, a species and genus apparently not recorded previously from North America.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 111 , Issue 10 , October 1979 , pp. 1121
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1979

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