Aethiopodes

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

Aethiopodes are 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

  1. ^ 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.
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