''Ptychamalia'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

moth genus in the family Geometridae described by Prout in 1932. Its only species, ''Ptychamalia dorneraria'', was first described by

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and James Halliday McDunnough in 1913. It is found in North America. The MONA or Hodges number for ''Ptychamalia dorneraria'' is 7131.

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