Scopula plantagenaria

Scopula plantagenaria · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Geometridae

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Scopula plantagenaria
Photo: David Dodd, CC BY

The adult has a wingspan of about 21 mm. It occurs across the United States from California east to Utah, and further east to Florida and Missouri.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

The wingspan measures roughly 21 mm.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It is found from California to Utah and eastward to Florida and Missouri.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 8 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Colorado, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas.

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

Scopula plantagenaria photo 2
Photo: Annika Lindqvist, CC BY
Scopula plantagenaria photo 3
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Scopula plantagenaria photo 4
Photo: Sue Carnahan, CC BY
Scopula plantagenaria photo 5
Photo: Wendy McCrady, CC BY

Same family (Geometridae)

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Sources

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

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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