Amelora

Amelora
Amelora oenobreches
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Tribe:	Nacophorini
Genus:	Amelora Guest, 1887

Amelora is a genus of moths in the Lepidopteran family Geometridae. Members of the reside in either South Africa or Australia. ^[1]

For more precise taxonomy, the genus belongs to the Subfamily Ennominae, within which they have recently been suggested to belong to the tribe Diptychini rather than Nacophorini. ^[2]

Species

• Amelora acontistica(Turner, 1947)
• Amelora adustaTurner, 1947
• Amelora amblopaGuest, 1887
• Amelora anepisceptaTurner, 1947
• Amelora arotraea Meyrick, 1892
• Amelora australis(Rosenstock, 1885)
• Amelora belemnophoraTurner, 1947
• Amelora camptodes]Turner, 1919
• Amelora catacrisMeyrick, 1892
• Amelora cerauniaTurner, 1947
• Amelora coniaTurner, 1947
• Amelora crenulataTurner, 1926
• Amelora cryphiaTurner, 1919
• Amelora crypsigrammaLower, 1899
• Amelora demistisGuest, 1887
• Amelora fucosaTurner, 1919
• Amelora goniotaGuest, 1887
• Amelora gonosemela(Lower, 1893)
• Amelora idiomorphaLower, 1893
• Amelora leucaniata(Guenée, 1857)
• Amelora lithopeplaLower, 1918
• Amelora macarta Turner, 1919
• Amelora mesocapnaTurner, 1919
• Amelora milvaria(Guenée, 1857)
• Amelora newmannaria(Guenée, 1857)
• Amelora oenobreches Turner, 1919
• Amelora oncerodesTurner, 1919
• Amelora oritrophaTurner, 1919
• Amelora pachyspilaTurner, 1919
• Amelora pentheresTurner, 1919
• Amelora perinipha(Lower, 1915)
• Amelora petrochroa(Lower, 1897)
• Amelora polychroaLower, 1907
• Amelora sparsularia(Guenée, 1857)
• Amelora suffusaTurner, 1926
• Amelora synclera Turner, 1919
• Amelora syscia(Turner, 1919)
• Amelora thegalea Turner, 1947
• Amelora zophopastaTurner, 1919

References

1. McQuillan, Peter (1996). "The Tasmanian geometrid moths associated with the genus Amelora auctorum (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae)" . Invertebrate Systematics. 10 (3): 433–506. doi:10.1071/IT9960433.
2. Murillo-Ramos, L; et al. (2019). "A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies". Systematic Entomology. 44 (4): 883–900. doi:10.1111/syen.12362.

• Amelora at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
• Amelora. EOL. (n.d.).