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

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Thera contractata (Packard, 1873)

Thera contractata (Packard, 1873)

Thera contractata, the contracted or evergreen spanworm, is a geometrid moth species found in North America.

Family
Genus
Thera
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Thera contractata (Packard, 1873)

Thera contractata is a species of geometrid moth that belongs to the family Geometridae. It is commonly known by the common names contracted spanworm and evergreen spanworm. This species is found in North America. Its MONA (also called Hodges) number is 7218.

Photo: (c) Mark D. Read, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mark D. Read · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Geometridae Thera

More from Geometridae

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

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