Pantherodes
Blotched leopard moth
Pantherodes conglomerata
Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Geometridae
Subfamily:
Ennominae
Genus:
Pantherodes

Guenée, 1858
Synonyms
  • Panthera Hübner, 1823[1]

Pantherodes is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.[2]

Species

  • Pantherodes arizonensis
  • Pantherodes colubraria
  • Pantherodes conglomerata
  • Pantherodes cornifrons
  • Pantherodes crassa
  • Pantherodes hoplitaria
  • Pantherodes leonaria
  • Pantherodes obliterata
  • Pantherodes olivacea
  • Pantherodes pardalaria
  • Pantherodes perspicillum
  • Pantherodes pumaria
  • Pantherodes rhadinaria
  • Pantherodes semiconfluens
  • Pantherodes unciaria
  • Pantherodes viperaria

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Description

Moths belonging to this genus have translucent yellow wings with leopard-like blotches.[4]

Distribution

These species can be found the southern states of the United States to Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.[5]

References


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