Dot-lined angle
The dot-lined angle is a small moth from the Americas that has become a great island hopper. Tiny dots run along the lines on its wings. Since 1970 it has spread to islands all across the Pacific Ocean.
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Fun facts
It first arrived in Hawaii in 1970 and by 1984 lived on all the main islands.
From there it reached Guam, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Okinawa, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
In the United States it sometimes wanders north as far as Colorado and Kentucky.
In Hawaii its caterpillars were found eating the leaves of the koa tree.
Most asked questions about Dot-lined angle
?Where does the dot-lined angle come from?
From the Americas, between northern Argentina and the southern United States.
?How big is the dot-lined angle?
Its wings measure 22 to 27 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Psamatodes abydata
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- North America, South America, Australia and Oceania, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Macaria abydata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Tiouraren (Y.-C. Tsai). CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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