Hagnagora acothysta

Hagnagora acothysta
	Female (a. dorsal view; b. ventral view)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Hagnagora
Species:	H. acothysta
Binomial name
	Hagnagora acothysta; (Schaus, 1901)
Synonyms
	Heterusia acothysta Schaus, 1901;

Hagnagora acothysta is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Brazil.

Unlike related species Hagnagora mortipax and Hagnagora jamaicensis, this species shows no white transversal band on the forewing, but rather a reduced blotch that reaches only about half of the size observed in mortipax.^[1]

References

^ "Three new species of Hagnagora Druce, 1885 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Ecuador and Costa Rica and a concise revision of the genus". zookeys.pensoft.net. Retrieved 2015-11-24.

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[pensoft-1] "Three new species of Hagnagora Druce, 1885 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Ecuador and Costa Rica and a concise revision of the genus". zookeys.pensoft.net. Retrieved 2015-11-24.

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