Honest Pero Moth and Allies

Pero honestaria · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Geometridae

Also called: Honest Pero, Honest Pero Moth

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Honest Pero Moth and Allies
Photo: Jeff Niznik, CC BY-SA

The Honest Pero Moth (Pero honestaria) is catalogued as number 6753 in the MONA/Hodges system. It lives in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Its MONA or Hodges number is 6753.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range is North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 42 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York, South Carolina, Vermont.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Honest Pero Moth and Allies photo 2
Photo: Dominic, CC BY
Honest Pero Moth and Allies photo 3
Photo: Garth Harwood, CC BY
Honest Pero Moth and Allies photo 4
Photo: Brodie Cass Talbott, CC BY
Honest Pero Moth and Allies photo 5
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0

Same family (Geometridae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pero_honestaria

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.

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