Lophophelma erionoma
| Lophophelma erionoma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Lophophelma |
| Species: | L. erionoma |
| Binomial name | |
| Lophophelma erionoma (Swinhoe, 1893)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lophophelma erionoma is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in China (Hunan, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hainan, Sichuan),[2] the north-eastern Himalaya and Sundaland.[3][4] The habitat consists of lower montane and upper montane forests.
Adults are reddish brown with a whitish area just distal to the posterior curvature of the forewing postmedial.[5]
Subspecies
- Lophophelma erionoma erionoma (north-western Himalaya)
- Lophophelma erionoma albicomitata (Prout, 1927) (Sundaland)
- Lophophelma erionoma kiangsiensis (Chu, 1981) (China: Zhejiang, Jiangxi)
- Lophophelma erionoma subnubigosa (Prout, 1927) (western China)
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- ↑ Pitkin, Linda M. ; Hongxiang Han & Shayleen James, 2007, Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150: 343-412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x
- ↑ Catalogue of Life - China Node
- ↑ LepIndex
- ↑ Digital Moths of Asia
- ↑ The Moths of Borneo
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