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Pseudoterpna

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Geometridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Grass emerald, Pseudoterpna coronillaria, Hemithea, Scotopteryx mucronata, Blotched emerald

Pseudoterpna is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.

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Description

Palpi porrect, the second joint clothed with hair and reaching beyond the sharp frontal tuft, where the third joint naked and varying in length. Hind tibia of male usually dilated and typically ending in a slight process on upperside and with a fold containing a tuft of long hair and two pairs of short spurs. Abdomen with short spreading dorsal tufts on medial segments. Both wings with crenulate margin. Fore wings with vein 3 from near angle of cell. Vein 5 from below upper angle and vein 6 from angle. Veins 7,8,9,10 stalked and vein 11 free or anastomosing with vein 12. Hind wings long and vein 3 from angle of cell. Vein 5 from near upper angle and vein 7 from before angle.

Species

  • Pseudoterpna coronillaria (Hübner, [1817])
  • Pseudoterpna coronillaria coronillaria (Hübner, [1817])
  • Pseudoterpna coronillaria algirica Wehrli, 1930
  • Pseudoterpna coronillaria axillaria Guenée, [1858]
  • Pseudoterpna coronillaria cinerascens (Zeller, 1847)
  • Pseudoterpna coronillaria flamignii Hausmann, 1997
  • Pseudoterpna coronillaria halperini Hausmann, 1996
  • Pseudoterpna corsicaria (Rambur, 1833) (=Pseudoterpna corsicaria ramburaria Oberthür, 1916)
  • Pseudoterpna lesuraria Lucas, 1933
  • Pseudoterpna pruinata (Hufnagel, 1767)
  • Pseudoterpna rectistrigaria Wiltshire, 1948
  • Pseudoterpna simplex Alphéraky, 1892
  • References

    Pseudoterpna Wikipedia