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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Boarmiini » Nepterotaea

Genus Nepterotaea

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Works Cited
Lepidoptera - Nepterotaea diagonalis Nepterotaea furva - Hodges #6526 - Nepterotaea furva - male Hulstina - Nepterotaea Geometrid - Nepterotaea memoriata Nepterotaea diagonalis? - Nepterotaea diagonalis Glena sp. - Nepterotaea Geometrid? - Nepterotaea memoriata Arizona Moth - Nepterotaea memoriata
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Geometroidea (Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths)
Family Geometridae (Geometrid Moths)
Subfamily Ennominae
Tribe Boarmiini
Genus Nepterotaea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Nepterotaea McDunnough(1), 1920
Numbers
Nepterotaea includes seven species in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)
Nepterotaea diagonalis Cassino, 1927
Nepterotaea marjorae Rindge, 1973 (3)
Nepterotaea ozarkensis Rindge, 1973 (3)
Nepterotaea dorotheata Sperry, 1949
Nepterotaea furva Rindge, 1973 (3)
Nepterotaea memoriata (Pears, 1906)
Nepterotaea obliviscata (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918)
Works Cited
1.James Halliday McDunnough (1877 -1962) A biographical obituary and bibliography
Douglas C. Ferguson . 1962. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 16(4): 209-228.
2.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
3.A revision of the moth genera Nepterotaea and Chesiadodes (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)
Frederick H. Rindge. 1973. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 152(4): 205-252.
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 14 May, 2012 - 10:58am
Last updated 28 June, 2013 - 8:21am

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