Faded Angle

Digrammia pallorata · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Geometridae

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Faded Angle
Photo: Jo Roberts, CC BY

Males have forewings 11 to 14 mm long and females 14 to 16 mm long. The caterpillars feed on the juniper species Juniperus monosperma and Juniperus pinhotii.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Males have forewings 11 to 14 mm long and females 14 to 16 mm long.

Source: Wikipedia

What it eats

The caterpillars feed on the juniper species Juniperus monosperma and Juniperus pinhotii.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 10 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Faded Angle photo 2
Photo: RJ Baltierra, CC BY
Faded Angle photo 3
Photo: Tom Kennedy, CC BY
Faded Angle photo 4
Photo: Sam Kieschnick, CC BY
Faded Angle photo 5
Photo: Annika Lindqvist, CC BY

Same family (Geometridae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digrammia_pallorata

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-26 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-26.

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