Yellowlined forest looper
- Latin name: Cladara limitaria (Walker)
- French name: Arpenteuse verte du sapin
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Family: Geometridae
- Synonym(s): Nyctobia limitaria Walker
Description
Distribution
Canada
Micro-habitat(s)
Needle
Damage, symptoms and biology
The yellowlined forest looper is a common innocuous solitary defoliator.Mature larva to 24 mm long. Head, unmarked yellow-green. Body, light green; thin dark green middorsal stripe and a yellow subdorsal stripe; creamy yellow subspiracular stripe.
This species overwinters in the pupal stage. Adults emerge in May, larvae are present from May to July, and pupation occurs from July to August.
Life cycle (East of the Rockies)
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Canadian Forest Service Publications
Diet and feeding behaviour
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Phyllophagous
: Feeds on the leaves of plants.
- Free-living defoliator: Feeds on and moves about freely on foliage.
Information on host(s)
Main host(s)
Amabilis fir, balsam fir, black spruce, Engelmann spruce, grand fir, mountain hemlock, Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir, Sitka spruce, subalpine fir, tamarack, western hemlock, western larch, western redcedar, white spruce
Photos
Lateral view of mature larva
Dion Manastyrski Centre de foresterie du Pacifique, Victoria (Colombie-Britannique) / Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, British Columbia
Dion Manastyrski Centre de foresterie du Pacifique, Victoria (Colombie-Britannique) / Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, British Columbia