Chloropteryx tepperaria
Species of moth
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Chloropteryx tepperaria, the angle-winged emerald moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by George Duryea Hulst in 1886 and it is found in the southeastern United States.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Chloropteryx |
| Species: | C. tepperaria |
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| Chloropteryx tepperaria (Hulst, 1886) | |
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Description
Adults
Like many emerald moths, adults have green wings and a green body with a white area between the eyes. The hindwings have a pointed outer margin, motivating the descriptive English name "angle-winged emerald". Forewings and hindwings each have antemedial and postmedial lines of disconnected, white spots and tan and brown, checkered terminal and costal lines.
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