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Genus of moths For the moth genus invalidly described by Julius Lederer in 1863, see Pycnarmon.

Entephria
Grey mountain carpet (E. caesiata) specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Larentiinae
Tribe: Hydriomenini
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 sometimes called "carpets". The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825.

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.

Selected species

Species of Entephria include:

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

Taxon identifiers
Entephria


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