Biology:Dysstroma ochrofuscaria

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Short description: Species of moth

Dysstroma ochrofuscaria
A moth on display with wings extended. Forewings darker brown with a pattern. Hindwings lighter brown. Body similar color to hindwings.
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D. ochrofuscaria
Binomial name
Dysstroma ochrofuscaria
Ferguson in Hodges, 1983

Dysstroma ochrofuscaria is a moth in the family Geometridae described by Douglas C. Ferguson in 1983.[1][2][3] It is found in North America.[2]

The MONA or Hodges number for Dysstroma ochrofuscaria is 7186.[4][5]

Notes

  • Dysstroma ochrofuscaria was originally published as an unavailable infrasubspecific name 'Dysstroma mulleolata, ab. ochrofuscaria, nov.' in Swett, 1917. Hodges et al. (1983) was the first to publish it as a species name.

References

Further reading

  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1. 
  • Hodges, R. W., et al., eds. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland, 284.
  • Poole, Robert W. / Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). Lepidoptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 3: Diptera, Lepidoptera, Siphonaptera, 605–1122.
  • Scoble, Malcolm J., ed. (1999). Geometrid Moths of the World: A Catalogue (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), 1016.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q15667816 entry