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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 » Caberini » Ilexia

Genus Ilexia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers
Black-dotted Ruddy Moth - Ilexia intractata - male Butterfly-like Moth - Ilexia intractata - male Ilexia intractata – Black-dotted Ruddy Moth - Ilexia intractata Black-dotted Ruddy Moth? - Ilexia intractata Ilexia intractata - Black-dotted Ruddy Moth - Ilexia intractata - male Black-dotted Ruddy Moth H#6711 - Ilexia intractata - female Moth - Ilexia intractata - male ? Ilexia intractata - Black-dotted Ruddy Moth - Hodges#6711 - Ilexia intractata - female
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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 Ilexia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Formerly Genus Thysanopyga, Ferguson, 2008
Explanation of Names
Author of genus Herrich-Schäffer, 1855. From Greek thysano, fringed and Greek pyga, rump.
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists two species.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 10 October, 2004 - 2:51pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 9 May, 2016 - 9:56pm

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