Oxydia vesulia
Appearance
Oxydia vesulia | |
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Spurge spanworm moth O. vesulia Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Oxydia |
Species: | O. vesulia
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Binomial name | |
Oxydia vesulia (Cramer, 1779)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Oxydia vesulia, the spurge spanworm moth, is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, North America, and South America.[1][2][3]
The MONA or Hodges number for Oxydia vesulia is 6967.[4]
Subspecies
[edit]These three subspecies belong to the species Oxydia vesulia:
- Oxydia vesulia alternata Warren, 1905
- Oxydia vesulia transponens Walker, 1860
- Oxydia vesulia vesulia (Cramer, 1779)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Oxydia vesulia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Oxydia vesulia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Oxydia vesulia species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Oxydia vesulia". Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Further reading
[edit]- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Oxydia vesulia at Wikimedia Commons