Ptychamalia

Ptychamalia is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae described by Prout in 1932. Its only species, Ptychamalia dorneraria, was first described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1913.[1][2] It is found in North America.[1]

Ptychamalia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Ptychamalia Prout, 1932
Species:	P. dorneraria
Binomial name
Ptychamalia dorneraria (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)

The MONA or Hodges number for Ptychamalia dorneraria is 7131.[3]

References

1. "Ptychamalia dorneraria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
2. "Ptychamalia dorneraria Species Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
3. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Ptychamalia dorneraria". Retrieved 2018-04-28.

Further reading

• Beadle, David; Leckie, Seabrooke (2012). Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 0547238487.
• Covell, Charles V. Jr. (2005). A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication Number 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 1-884549-21-7.
• Grote, Aug. R.; Robinson, C. T. (1868). List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
• Heppner, J. B. (2003). "Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog" (PDF). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 17. ISSN 0066-8036. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
• Hodges, Ronald W., ed. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E. W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. ISBN 9780860960164.
• Holloway, J.D. (1997). Family Geometridae, subfamilies Sterrhinae and Larentiinae. The Moths of Borneo. part 10. Southdene Sdn. Bhd. ISBN 983999154X.
• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
• Powell, Jerry A.; Opler, Paul A. (2009). Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520251977.
• Yamamoto, Satoshi; Sota, Teiji (2007). "Phylogeny of the Geometridae and the evolution of winter moths inferred from a simultaneous analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44: 711–723. ISSN 1055-7903.