Tetracis formosa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Tetracis
- Species
- Tetracis formosa
- Scientific Name
- Tetracis formosa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tetracis formosa
Tetracis formosa is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by George Duryea Hulst in 1896. It is found in North America from Colorado, eastern Utah and eastern Wyoming west to California and north to southern British Columbia and southern Alberta at elevations between 870 and 2,320 meters.
The length of the forewings 17–23 mm. Adults are on wing from early September to late November.
Larvae have been reared on Prunus andersonii.
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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
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