Lophothorax

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Lophothorax
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Pseudoterpnini
Genus: Lophothorax
Turner, 1939
Species:
L. eremnopis
Binomial name
Lophothorax eremnopis
(Turner, 1922)
Synonyms
  • Crypsiphona eremnopisTurner, 1922
  • Lophothorax alamphodesTurner, 1939

Lophothorax is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae. It consists of only one species, Lophothorax eremnopis, which is found in Australia (South Australia and Western Australia). Both the genus and the species were first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner, the species in 1922 and the genus in 1939.

The larvae feed on Dodonaea bursariifolia . [1]

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References

  1. Pitkin, Linda M.; Han, Hongxiang; James, Shayleen (2007). "Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150: 334–412. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x . Archived from the original on April 25, 2012.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)