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Common Spring Moth

Heliomata cycladata

Field notes

Heliomata cycladata, the common spring moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1866. It is found in eastern North America, with records from southern Ontario, southern Quebec, Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin to South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, northern Mississippi and Arkansas.

The wingspan is about 20 mm. Adults are on wing from March to July.

The larvae feed on Robinia pseudoacacia and Gleditsia triacanthos.

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Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided