Destutia excelsa
Appearance
| Destutia excelsa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Ourapterygini |
| Genus: | Destutia |
| Species: | D. excelsa
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| Binomial name | |
| Destutia excelsa (Strecker in Ruffner, 1878)
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Destutia excelsa is a species of moth in the family Geometridae first described by Strecker in 1878.[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.[1]
The MONA or Hodges number for Destutia excelsa is 6883.[5]
Subspecies
[edit]Three subspecies belong to Destutia excelsa:
- Destutia excelsa excelsa (Strecker in Ruffner, 1878) i g
- Destutia excelsa olivata (Barnes & McDunnough, 1917) i
- Destutia excelsa simpliciaria (Grote, 1883) i g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = BugGuide[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Destutia excelsa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ a b "Destutia excelsa species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ a b "Destutia excelsa". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ a b "Destutia excelsa Species Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Destutia excelsa". Retrieved 2018-04-25.
Further reading
[edit]- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.