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Macaria sexmaculata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Macaria
Species:	M. sexmaculata
Binomial name
Macaria sexmaculata Packard, 1867
Synonyms
Semiothisa sexmaculata Macaria unimodaria Morrison, 1874 Semiothisa labradoriata Möschler, 1883 Itame deleta Sciagraphia purcellata Taylor, 1908 Macaria minorata var. incolorata Dyar, 1904

Macaria sexmaculata, known by the common names green larch looper, larch looper or six-spotted angle, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from Alaska to Nunavut and Newfoundland, south in the east to Massachusetts and south in the west to Oregon.

The wingspan is 16–24 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August. There are one to two generations per year.

The larvae of ssp. sexmaculata feed on Larix laricina and Larix decidua. Larvae of ssp. incolorata have been recorded on Larix occidentalis and Pseudotsuga.

Subspecies

• Macaria sexmaculata sexmaculata (Newfoundland, Labrador, Alberta, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, Michigan, North Dakota)
• Macaria sexmaculata incolorata (Alberta to British Columbia, northern Idaho, western Montana, Washington, Oregon)

External links

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• Bug Guide
• Description of the Larval Stage

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• Macariini
• Insects of the Arctic
• Taxa named by Alpheus Spring Packard
• Moths described in 1867
• Macariini stubs