Cryphaea xylina (Turner, 1917) is a animal in the Geometridae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Cryphaea xylina (Turner, 1917)

Cryphaea xylina (Turner, 1917)

Cryphaea xylina is the only species of the monotypic geometrid moth genus Cryphaea, found in Australia, first described by Turner in 1917.

Family
Genus
Cryphaea
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Cryphaea xylina (Turner, 1917)

Cryphaea is a monotypic moth genus that belongs to the family Geometridae. This genus contains only one species, Cryphaea xylina, which is found in Australia. Both the genus Cryphaea and the species Cryphaea xylina were first described by Turner in 1917.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Geometridae Cryphaea

More from Geometridae

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

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