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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 » Caberini » Erastria

Genus Erastria

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Print References · Works Cited
Erastria cruentaria - male Moth for ID. - Erastria cruentaria - female Moth with four black spots - Erastria cruentaria - male Erastria coloraria Thin-lined Erastria (Erastria cruentaria) - Erastria cruentaria - male Erastria viridirufaria 6703 - Erastria viridirufaria - male Unknown Daytime Flying Moth - Erastria cruentaria - female Thin-lined Erastria? - Erastria cruentaria - male
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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 Caberini
Genus Erastria
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Erastria Hübner, 1813
Trosthis Hübner, 1821
Syrrhodia Hübner, 1823
Catopyrrha Hübner, 1823
Euchlidon Hübner, 1823
Acroleuca Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
Explanation of Names
Generic epithet Erastria is Greek for "a lover." (1)
Print References
Hübner, J. 1813. Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge bd.1: plate
Rindge, F.H. 1950. A revision of the North American species of the genus Syrruodia (Erastria) (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). American Museum novitates 1469 (PDF)
Works Cited
1.An accentuated list of the British Lepidoptera, with hints on the derivation of the names.
Anonymous. 1858. The Entomological Societies of Oxford and Cambridge.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 24 October, 2006 - 6:47pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 30 June, 2014 - 9:17pm

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