Oxydia vesulia

Oxydia vesulia
Spurge spanworm moth O. vesulia Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Oxydia
Species:	O. vesulia
Binomial name
Oxydia vesulia (Cramer, 1779)
Synonyms[1]
Oxydia aromata Druce, 1892 Oxydia vesuliata Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1858

Oxydia vesulia, the spurge spanworm moth, is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, North America, and South America.[1][2][3]

The MONA or Hodges number for Oxydia vesulia is 6967.[4]

Subspecies

These three subspecies belong to the species Oxydia vesulia:

• Oxydia vesulia alternata Warren, 1905
• Oxydia vesulia transponens Walker, 1860
• Oxydia vesulia vesulia (Cramer, 1779)

References

1. "Oxydia vesulia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Oxydia vesulia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Oxydia vesulia species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Oxydia vesulia". Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

• 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.

External links

• Media related to Oxydia vesulia at Wikimedia Commons