Allocotesia

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Allocotesia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Geometrinae
Genus: Allocotesia
Wehrli, 1936
Species:
A. chiphora
Binomial name
Allocotesia chiphora
Wehrli, 1936

Allocotesia is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae. [1] Its only species is Allocotesia chiphora. Both the genus and species were described by Wehrli in 1936. [2]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Allocotesia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Allocotesia chiphora". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved April 10, 2019.