Aethiopodes

Aethiopodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Subfamily:	Ennominae
Tribe:	Gonodontini
Genus:	Aethiopodes (disputed) Warren, 1902
Type species
Azelina indecoraria Walker, 1866

Aethiopodes is a genus in the geometer moth family (Geometridae). Sometimes included in Odontopera, other authors treat it as distinct. If valid, it is a small genus with just about 10 species from southern Africa.^[1]

Species include:^[1]

Aethiopodes indecoraria Walker, 1866
Aethiopodes perplexata
Aethiopodes saxeticola Krüger, 2005
Aethiopodes staudei

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Krüger (2005)

References

Krüger, M. (2005): New species of geometrid moths from Lesotho (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 42: 19-45. HTML abstract
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Parectropis. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.