One-spotted Variant

Hypagyrtis unipunctata · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Geometridae

Also called: One-spotted Variant Moth, White Spot

Damages trees, gardens or crops. The larvae feed on the leaves of many trees and shrubs, so they can damage garden and forest plants.

One-spotted Variant moth has a wingspan of about 20 to 47 mm.

How to recognize it

Hypagyrtis unipunctata is a moth in the Geometridae family, known as the one-spotted variant or white spot.

Its wingspan ranges from 20 to 47 mm.

The larvae feed on leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs such as maple, oak, birch, and rose.

Adults are active from April through September in most areas, and from June to July in northern regions.

It belongs to the Geometridae family, which includes many similar moths.

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

Source: GBIF

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

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Source: GBIF

How big is the one-spotted variant moth?

Its wingspan measures between 20 and 47 mm.

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.