Selenia alciphearia Walker, 1860 is a animal in the Geometridae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Selenia alciphearia Walker, 1860

Selenia alciphearia Walker, 1860

Selenia alciphearia (northern selenia / brown-tipped thorn) is a geometrid moth species found in North America with MONA/Hodges number 6817.

Family
Genus
Selenia
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Selenia alciphearia Walker, 1860

Selenia alciphearia, which is commonly known as the northern selenia or the brown-tipped thorn, is a species of geometrid moth belonging to the family Geometridae. This species is found in North America. The MONA (also called Hodges) number for Selenia alciphearia is 6817.

Photo: (c) Seabrooke Leckie, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Seabrooke Leckie · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Geometridae Selenia

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

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