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Geometridae 91a1151 – 6669.1   Aplogompha polymygmata (Dyar, 1919)

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Distribution: Southern Texas and Mexico. Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: polymygmata Dyar 1919 (Molybdogompha); Type locality: Panuco, Mexico Taxonomic Notes: Aplogompha polymygmata (Dyar, 1919), now recognized within the North American fauna (Texas) in Ferguson (1986), was formerly in the genus Molybdogompha, n. syn., Pitkin (2002), Zool. J. Linn. Soc.,135(2-3):164.

References

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced. Dyar, H.G., 1919. Some new tropical American moths (Lepidoptera). Insecutor inscitiae menstruus, 7: 82. Ferguson, D.C., 1986. Four new United States records of moths from Texas. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 40: 353-354. Pitkin, L.M., 2002. Neotropical ennomine moths: a review of the genera (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135(2-3): 121-401. Species Page at BugGuide.Net

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