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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Lithinini » Tacparia » Tacparia atropunctata - Hodges#6806 (Tacparia atropunctata)

Species Tacparia atropunctata - Hodges#6806

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Geometroidea (Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths)
Family Geometridae (Geometrid Moths)
Subfamily Ennominae
Tribe Lithinini
Genus Tacparia
Species atropunctata (Tacparia atropunctata - Hodges#6806)
Hodges Number
6806
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tacparia atropunctata (Packard, 1874)
phylogenetic sequence # 911238
Numbers
Three Tacparia species are found in America north of Mexico. (1)
Identification
Range
eastern (1)
See Also
Pale Alder Moth - Tacparia detersata - (with a terminal line of dark dashes)


Tacparia zalissaria - (AM line faint-to-missing, may be reduced to about three or four dark dots)


Also, in tribe Ourapterygini, Prochoerodes forficaria - (with pointed hind-wings) (western distribution)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 25 June, 2008 - 7:31pm
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 22 March, 2019 - 7:42pm

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