Hagnagora mortipax is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1872. It is found in Costa Rica and Ecuador.

Hagnagora mortipax
Male (dorsal view left and ventral view)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Hagnagora
Species:
H. mortipax
Binomial name
Hagnagora mortipax
(Butler, 1872)
Synonyms
  • Scordylia mortipax Butler, 1872
  • Heterusia flavipectus Warren, 1897

The upperside of the wing has a dark brown base colour with a large cream-white blotch on the forewing. This blotch almost reaches the outer margin, also either reaching the costal margin (in Costa Rican specimens), or scantily not (in Ecuadorian specimens). The white blotch is narrower in Hagnagora jamaicensis, and significantly smaller, and separated from the outer margin, in Hagnagora acothysta from Brazil. All three species are significantly larger than Hagnagora guatica.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ Brehm, Gunnar (November 18, 2015). "Three new species of Hagnagora Druce, 1885 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Ecuador and Costa Rica and a concise revision of the genus". ZooKeys (537): 131–156. doi:10.3897/zookeys.537.6090. PMC 4714052. PMID 26798242.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.