Enypia
Enypia | |
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Packard's Girdle moth (Enypia packardata), Temagami, Ontario | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Enypia Hulst, 1896 |
Species | |
4 sp., see text |
Enypia is a genus of moth, commonly called girdle moths, in the family Geometridae.
Description
Ennypia moths have light brownish-gray wings with variably dense dark speckling and prominent, black AM and PM lines. The PM line is angled diagonally from the inner margin toward the apex and has a highly irregular toothed and scalloped outline, meeting the costa in the apical area. It is also irregular and fainter than on the forewing, with the outer margin being slightly angular. The AM line is scalloped or zigzagged hindwing and slightly paler.
Species
- Enypia coolidgi Cassino & Swett, 1923
- Enypia griseata Grossbeck, 1908 – Mountain Girdle
- Enypia packardata Taylor, 1906 – Packard's Girdle
- Enypia venata (Grote, 1883) – Variable Girdle