Genus Pterospoda

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers

Pterospoda nigrescens - Hodges #6706 - Pterospoda nigrescens - male

Lepidoptera - Pterospoda nigrescens - male

Rindgea prolifacta? - Pterospoda nigrescens - male

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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 Caberini

Genus Pterospoda

Explanation of Names

Author of species is Dyar, 1903.

Numbers

3 species listed at Nomina-Nearctica:

Pterospoda kunzei Hulst 1898

Pterospoda nigrescens Hulst 1898

Pterospoda opuscularia Hulst 1887

4 species listed at All-Leps; includes species listed at Nomina-Nearctica plus species Pterospoda kinoi.

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 9 September, 2009 - 6:55pm

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