About Tornos scolopacinaria (Guenée)
Tornos scolopacinaria (Guenée), commonly known as the dimorphic gray, is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. This species is found in North America, and its MONA or Hodges number is 6486. Male individuals have grayish-brown wings with a dark, round discal spot on the fore wing. Female individuals mostly have yellowish-gray wings with dark gray outer margins, and their dark fore wing discal spot is larger than that of males. Both sexes have a checkered fringe on their wings, and the total wingspan of this moth ranges from 2.1 to 2.9 cm. Adult moths are active from February to November, and this species is known to use species of aster and tickseed plants as host plants.
