Entephria

As invalidly described by Lederer in 1863, Entephria refers to the grass moth genus Pycnarmon.
Entephria
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

Eutephria (lapsus)
Glaucopteryx Hübner, 1825
Phaesyloides Bruand, 1847
Trichochlamys Hulst, 1896

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]

  • Entephria amplicosta Inoue, 1955
  • Entephria aurata (Packard, 1867)
  • Entephria aurisquamaria Krüger, 2005
  • Entephria bastelbergeri (Püngeler, 1902)
  • Entephria byssata (Aurivillius, 1891)
  • Entephria caeruleata (Guenée, 1858)
  • Entephria caesiata Grey Mountain Carpet
  • Entephria calcephila Tikhonov, 1994
  • Entephria chorogensis Viidalepp, 1988
  • Entephria contestata Vorbrodt & Müller-Rutz, 1913
  • Entephria cyanata
  • Entephria desperata (Staudinger, 1892)
  • Entephria epipercna (Prout, 1913) (formerly in Perizoma)
  • Entephria expiata (Püngeler, 1904)
  • Entephria flavata (Osthelder, 1929)
  • Entephria flavicinctata Yellow-ringed Carpet
  • Entephria glaucocyma Krüger, 2005
  • Entephria ignorata (Staudinger, 1892)
  • Entephria infidaria (La Harpe, 1853)
  • Entephria intermediaria (Alphéraky, 1883)
  • Entephria inventaraia (Grote, 1882)
  • Entephria javaria

  • Entephria kuznetsovi Viidalepp, 1975
  • Entephria lagganata (Taylor, 1908)
  • Entephria leucosticta Krüger, 2005
  • Entephria luteolata Aubert, 1959
  • Entephria maraisi Krüger, 2005
  • Entephria mesozona Krüger, 2005
  • Entephria multivagata (Hulst, 1881)
  • Entephria muscosaria (Christoph, 1893)
  • Entephria nigrescens (Hulst, 1900)
  • Entephria nobiliaria
  • Entephria occata (Püngeler, 1903)
  • Entephria olgae Vasilenko, 1990
  • Entephria polata
  • Entephria punctipes
  • Entephria ravaria (Lederer, 1853)
  • Entephria rjabovi Tikhonov, 1994
  • Entephria sachaensis Vasilenko, 1990
  • Entephria takuata (Taylor, 1908)
  • Entephria tejmurovi Tikhonov, 1994
  • Entephria tzygankovi Wehrli, 1929
  • Entephria 'Western Cape'[3]

Footnotes

  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Krüger (2005), FE (2011), and see references in Savela (2003)
  2. Krüger (2005), FE (2011), and see references in Savela (2003)
  3. Mentioned in Krüger (2005)

References

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