Trichopteryx polycommata

Trichopteryx polycommata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Trichopteryx
Species:
T. polycommata
Binomial name
Trichopteryx polycommata
Synonyms
  • Geometra polycommata Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775
  • Lobophora polycommata (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)

Trichopteryx polycommata, the barred tooth-striped, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found in Europe (threatened in Wales) and the Near East, east to the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, the southern Russian Far East (Primorsk) and Japan (Hokkaido).

Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 6