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Genus Pterospoda

Pterospoda nigrescens - Hodges #6706 - Pterospoda nigrescens - male Arizona Moth - Pterospoda kunzei - male moth - Pterospoda nigrescens - male Moth - Pterospoda opuscularia - male Pterospoda opuscularia - male Rindgea prolifacta? - Pterospoda nigrescens - male Moth - Pterospoda kunzei - male #6706 - Pterospoda nigrescens? - 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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