Juniper Looper(Eupithecia interruptofasciata)

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juniper looper Photo by Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Archive, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Bugwood.org Taxonomy Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Hexapoda (including Insecta) Order: Lepidoptera Family: Geometridae Genus: Eupithecia Species: interruptofasciata Scientific Name Eupithecia interruptofasciata Packard

Contents 1 Description 2 Food 3 Life Cycle 4 Comments 5 References

Description

Slender, green body with pale spiracular stripe. Yellowish green head mottled with reddish brown on lobes; yellowish green thoracic legs. Dark green middorsal stripe; yellow and white spiracular stripe. Yellow annulations on segments; narrow yellow band at hind margin of segments; anal plate usually with brown to reddish brown in center and yellow laterally. Up to 14 mm.

Food

Common juniper.

Life Cycle

One generation. Egg overwinters. Mature caterpillar present from May to July.

Comments

One variety of this caterpillar has an indistinct, whitish subdorsal stripe. Although the juniper looper superficially resembles the red-striped juniper looper, Thera juniperata, it lacks the purplish red spiracular stripe.

References

Maier, C.T., C.R. Lemmon, J.M. Fengler, D.F. Schweitzer, and R.C. Reardon. 2004. Caterpillars on the Foliage of Conifers in the Northeastern United States. FHTET-2004-1. Morgantown, WV: USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team; 151 p.