Tetracis cervinaria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Tetracis
- Species
- Tetracis cervinaria
- Scientific Name
- Tetracis cervinaria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tetracis cervinaria
Tetracis cervinaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1871. It is found in North America from British Columbia south to Kern County, California and eastward to western Montana, south-eastern Idaho, Carbon County, Wyoming and Larimer County, Colorado. It is found at elevations of 790 to 2,375 meters.
The length of the forewings 19–23 mm. Adults are on wing from February to June.
The larvae feed on Prunus emarginata and Prunus virginiana.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Tetracis australis
- Tetracis barnesii
- Tetracis cachexiata
- Tetracis cervinaria
- Tetracis chilenaria
- Tetracis crocallata
- Tetracis edmondsii
- Tetracis erosinata
- Tetracis formosa
- Tetracis fuscata
- Tetracis hirsutaria
- Tetracis jubararia
- Tetracis montanaria
- Tetracis mosesiani
- Tetracis pagonaria
- Tetracis pallidata
- Tetracis pallulata
- Tetracis rufa































































































































































