Amelora

Amelora
Amelora oenobreches
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Nacophorini
Genus: Amelora
Guest, 1887

Amelora is a genus of moths in the Lepidopteran family Geometridae. Members of the reside in either South Africa or Australia.[1]

For more precise taxonomy, the genus belongs to the Subfamily Ennominae, within which they have recently been suggested to belong to the tribe Diptychini rather than Nacophorini.[2]

Species

  • Amelora acontistica (Turner, 1947)
  • Amelora adusta Turner, 1947
  • Amelora amblopa Guest, 1887
  • Amelora anepiscepta Turner, 1947
  • Amelora arotraea Meyrick, 1892
  • Amelora australis (Rosenstock, 1885)
  • Amelora belemnophora Turner, 1947
  • Amelora camptodes] Turner, 1919
  • Amelora catacris Meyrick, 1892
  • Amelora ceraunia Turner, 1947
  • Amelora conia Turner, 1947
  • Amelora crenulata Turner, 1926
  • Amelora cryphia Turner, 1919
  • Amelora crypsigramma Lower, 1899
  • Amelora demistis Guest, 1887
  • Amelora fucosa Turner, 1919
  • Amelora goniota Guest, 1887
  • Amelora gonosemela (Lower, 1893)
  • Amelora idiomorpha Lower, 1893
  • Amelora leucaniata (Guenée, 1857)
  • Amelora lithopepla Lower, 1918
  • Amelora macarta Turner, 1919
  • Amelora mesocapna Turner, 1919
  • Amelora milvaria (Guenée, 1857)
  • Amelora newmannaria (Guenée, 1857)
  • Amelora oenobreches Turner, 1919
  • Amelora oncerodes Turner, 1919
  • Amelora oritropha Turner, 1919
  • Amelora pachyspila Turner, 1919
  • Amelora pentheres Turner, 1919
  • Amelora perinipha (Lower, 1915)
  • Amelora petrochroa (Lower, 1897)
  • Amelora polychroa Lower, 1907
  • Amelora sparsularia (Guenée, 1857)
  • Amelora suffusa Turner, 1926
  • Amelora synclera Turner, 1919
  • Amelora syscia (Turner, 1919)
  • Amelora thegalea Turner, 1947
  • Amelora zophopasta Turner, 1919

References

  1. ^ McQuillan, Peter (1996). "The Tasmanian geometrid moths associated with the genus Amelora auctorum (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 10 (3): 433–506. doi:10.1071/IT9960433.
  2. ^ Murillo-Ramos, L; et al. (2019). "A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies". Systematic Entomology. 44 (4): 883–900. doi:10.1111/syen.12362.
  • Amelora at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  • Amelora. EOL. (n.d.).