Nemoria rubrifrontaria (Packard, 1873) is a animal in the Geometridae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Nemoria rubrifrontaria (Packard, 1873)

Nemoria rubrifrontaria (Packard, 1873)

The red-fronted emerald (Nemoria rubrifrontaria) is a North American moth species in the Geometridae family, with pink eggs and leaf-mimicking larvae.

Family
Genus
Nemoria
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Nemoria rubrifrontaria (Packard, 1873)

Nemoria rubrifrontaria, commonly called the red-fronted emerald, is a moth species that belongs to the geometrid moth family Geometridae, within the superfamily Geometroidea. This species was first described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1873. It occurs in North America. The MONA (Hodges) number assigned to Nemoria rubrifrontaria is 7047. This species produces pink eggs. Its larvae mimic the leaves of sweet fern, and develop through five instars.

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Taxonomy

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Geometridae › Nemoria

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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