Elegant Thorn

Tetracis cervinaria

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae

Tetracis cervinaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1871. It is found in North America from British Columbia south to Kern County, California and eastward to western Montana, south-eastern Idaho, Carbon County, Wyoming and Larimer County, Colorado. It is found at elevations of 790 to 2,375 meters.

Distribution

Elegant Thorn — (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 182Canada · 154

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionTetracis cervinaria, Wikipedia contributors

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