Trygodes
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 14
- Family
- Geometridae
- Collections
- ECOSUR, MHNCA
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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Trygodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
==Description== Palpi slender and reaching just beyond the frons. Antennae of male ciliated. Hindlegs much reduced, tibia dilated with a large tuft of long hair from base and without spurs. Abdomen with lateral tufts of hair towards extremity. Forewings with vein 3 from angle of cell and vein 5 from somewhat above middle of discocellulars. Veins 7, 8, 9 and 10 stalked, and vein 11 anastomosing (fusing) slightly with them to form the areole. Hindwings with vein 3 from angle of cell. Vein 5 from somewhat above middle of discocellulars.
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