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Glossary Entomology / Term

Looper

A caterpillar belonging to the family Geometridae. Loopers have only one pair of abdominal prolegs (besides the terminal claspers). They move with a characteristic looping of the body. Other common names for loopers are Measuringworm or Inchworm.

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