Geometrids of Maine
(Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda, Class Hexapoda, Order Lepidoptera, Family Geometridae)


(updated 21 July 2020)



Welcome. Below is a working checklist of Maine’s inchworms, spanworms, and loopers.

A little work by each of us will save a lot of work for all of us.
   Thank you for the contributions to this page from Scott T. Grierson.




Archiearinae

Archiearis infans (the first-born) gets its common name because it is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, species of Geometridae to emerge in the spring.

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