Angerona prunaria

Orange moth
Mounted
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Lepidoptera
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Angerona

Duponchel, 1829
Species:
A. prunaria
Binomial name
Angerona prunaria
Linnaeus, 1758

Angerona is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae erected by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1829. Its only species, Angerona prunaria, the orange moth, was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

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