Entephria
- As invalidly described by Lederer in 1863, Entephria refers to the grass moth genus Pycnarmon.
| Entephria | |
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| Grey Mountain Carpet (E. caesiata) specimen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Subfamily: | Larentiinae |
| Tribe: | Larentiini |
| Genus: | Entephria Hübner, 1825 |
| Type species | |
| Geometra flavicinctata Hübner, 1813 | |
| Diversity | |
| About 50 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Eutephria (lapsus) | |
Entephria is a genus in the geometer moth family (Geometridae). There is no unambiguous common name for these moths; like many other members of their subfamily Larentiinae, they are called "carpets".
Most of its roughly 50 species occur across the Holarctic; from Europe alone, 10 species have been recorded. But some others are found in Africa, and it is suspected that numerous others are presently misplaced in Perizoma and Scotopteryx. In the past, some authors have erroneously treated Entephria species under the genus name Dasyuris.[1]
Selected species
Species of Entephria include:[2]
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Footnotes
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Entephria. |
- Fauna Europaea (FE) (2011): Entephria. Version 2.4, 2011-JAN-27. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Entephria. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
- Savela, Markku (2003): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Entephria. Version of 203-DEC-21. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
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