Prorella leucata

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| taxon = Prorella leucata

| authority = (Hulst, 1896){{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82858537 |title=Prorella leucata (Hulst 1896) |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325013625/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82858537 |archive-date=March 25, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7613 |title=910454.00 – 7613 – Prorella leucata – (Hulst, 1896) |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=May 2, 2019}}

| synonyms = *Tephroclystia leucata Hulst, 1896

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Prorella leucata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by George Duryea Hulst in 1896. It is found in North America from California through Colorado, Maine, Montana, Oregon and Utah to British Columbia.

The wingspan is about 20 mm.{{cite web |last=Heiman |first=Maury J. |date=April 5, 2014 |url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/333532 |title=Species Prorella leucata - Hodges#7613 |website=BugGuide |accessdate=May 2, 2019}}{{cite journal |last=McDunnough |first=James H. |author-link=James Halliday McDunnough |date=1949 |url=http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/leprefs/B093a08.pdf |title=Revision of the North American species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=93 |pages=533–728}} Adults are on wing from June to September.

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Category:Eupitheciini

Category:Moths of North America

Category:Fauna of the Sierra Nevada (United States)

Category:Moths described in 1896

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