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Orange Wing
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Orange Wing

Mellilla xanthometata

Mellilla is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae erected by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. Its only species, Mellilla xanthometata, the orangewing moth, was first described by Francis Walker in 1862. It is found in most of eastern North America.

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Orange Wing in Muḥammad Ḥaydar, 17th cent. Shujāʻ-i Ḥaydarī va-ʻajāʼib al-buldān : manuscript, undated. MS Persian 63. محمد حيدر. شجاع حيدري وعجائب البلدان : مخطوطة. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Muḥammad Ḥaydar, 17th cent. Shujāʻ-i Ḥaydarī va-ʻajāʼib al-buldān : manuscript, undated. MS Persian 63. محمد حيدر. شجاع حيدري وعجائب البلدان : مخطوطة. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Muḥammad Ḥaydar · n.d. · p.179

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 118501.