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

• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2011): Entephria. Version 2.4, 2011-JAN-27. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Entephria. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
• Savela, Markku (2003): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Entephria. Version of 203-DEC-21. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.