Oxydia vesulia

Oxydia vesulia, the spurge spanworm moth, is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, North America, and South America.^[1][2][3]

Oxydia vesulia
Spurge spanworm moth O. vesulia Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Oxydia
Species:	O. vesulia
Binomial name
Oxydia vesulia (Cramer, 1779)
Synonyms[1]
Oxydia aromata Druce, 1892 Oxydia vesuliata Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1858

The MONA or Hodges number for Oxydia vesulia is 6967.^[4]

Subspecies

These three subspecies belong to the species Oxydia vesulia:

• Oxydia vesulia alternata Warren, 1905
• Oxydia vesulia transponens Walker, 1860
• Oxydia vesulia vesulia (Cramer, 1779)