Speckled Lamplighter

Lychnosea intermicata · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Geometridae

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Speckled Lamplighter
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0

Lychnosea intermicata is a geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America. Its native range is North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Lychnosea intermicata belongs to the geometrid moth family Geometridae.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

This species occurs in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range is North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 15 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Missouri.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Speckled Lamplighter photo 2
Photo: Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren, CC BY
Speckled Lamplighter photo 3
Photo: Robert Webster, CC BY-SA
Speckled Lamplighter photo 4
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Speckled Lamplighter photo 5
Photo: Joshua Ebright, CC BY

Same family (Geometridae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychnosea_intermicata

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.

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