Amphiclasta lygaea Turner, 1906 is a animal in the Geometridae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Amphiclasta lygaea Turner, 1906

Amphiclasta lygaea Turner, 1906

Amphiclasta lygaea is the only species of the monotypic geometrid moth genus Amphiclasta, found in Australia, described in 1906 by Alfred Jefferis Turner.

Family
Genus
Amphiclasta
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Amphiclasta lygaea Turner, 1906

Amphiclasta is a monotypic moth genus that belongs to the family Geometridae. Amphiclasta lygaea is the only species in this genus, and it is found in Australia. Both the genus Amphiclasta and its sole species Amphiclasta lygaea were first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1906.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Geometridae Amphiclasta

More from Geometridae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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