Nasusina mendicata

Nasusina mendicata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918. It is found in the US in southern and central California, extending up the coast as far as Sonoma and Napa counties.[3]

Nasusina mendicata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Nasusina
Species:
N. mendicata
Binomial name
Nasusina mendicata
Synonyms
  • Eupithecia mendicata Barnes & McDunnough, 1918

The wingspan is about 12 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from March to August and in October.

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Nasusina mendicata (Barnes & McDunnough 1918)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
  2. "910449.00 – 7608 – Nasusina mendicata – (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918)". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  3. McDunnough, James H. (1949). "Revision of the North American species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 93: 533–728.
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