We investigated the phenology of adult angel lichen moths (Cisthene angelus) along a 364-km long segment of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA, using a unique data set of 2,437 light-trap samples collected by citizen scientists. We found that adults of C. angelus were bivoltine from 2012 to 2014. We quantified plasticity in wing lengths and sex ratios among the two generations and across a 545-m elevation gradient. We found that abundance, but not wing length, increased at lower elevations and that the two generations differed in size and sex distributions. Our results shed light on the life history and morphology of a common, but poorly known, species of moth endemic to the southwestern United States and Mexico.
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1 September 2016
Phenology of the adult angel lichen moth (Cisthene angelus) in Grand Canyon, USA
Anya N. Metcalfe,
Theodore A. Kennedy,
Jeffrey D. Muehlbauer
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The Southwestern Naturalist
Vol. 61 • No. 3
September 2016
Vol. 61 • No. 3
September 2016