Eupithecia phyllisae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Eupithecia |
Species: | E. phyllisae
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Binomial name | |
Eupithecia phyllisae |
Eupithecia phyllisae is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Rindge in 1963. It is found in the US states of New Mexico and Arizona.[3]
The length of the forewings is 7-8.5 mm for males and 7–9 mm for females. The forewing ground color is pale grayish white, heavily overlain with pale reddish-brown scales. The upper portion of the median area is broadly grayish black. The hindwings are concolorous with the forewings, but with a sinuate, grayish-black median band and a brownish-red extradiscal band, separated by a prominent stripe of the ground color.
The species is named in honor of the wife of the author, Phyllis Rindge.