Nepheloleuca complicata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Nepheloleuca |
Species: | N. complicata |
Binomial name | |
Nepheloleuca complicata (Guenee, 1858) | |
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Nepheloleuca complicata, the swallow-tailed moth, is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti and from Panama to Peru. [1] The habitat consists of lowland rainforests and mid-elevation cloudforests up to altitudes of about 1,800 metres.
The Ourapterygini are one of the large tribes of geometer moths in the subfamily Ennominae. The tribe was described by Charles Théophile Bruand d'Uzelle in 1846. They are particularly plentiful in the Neotropics. Ourapterygini are generally held to be the youngest tribe of their subfamily, and at least seasonally have characteristic apomorphic asymmetrical processes of the anellus.
Apantesis is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855. They are found in North and Central America.
Anapoma is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Tolna is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1869.
Lobogonodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Max Bastelberger in 1909.
Nepheloleuca, is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1883. The genus includes twelve species, similar in appearance, yet different in ground color and with minor variations in markings. Nepheloleuca species occur on the Caribbean islands of Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica, but also on mainland South America.
Tolna complicata is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. It is found on Madagascar.
Terinebrica is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tortricidae.
Cosmopterix complicata is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Thailand.
Epicrocis is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1848.
Epicrocis complicata is a species of snout moth in the genus Epicrocis. It was described by Boris Balinsky in 1994 and is found in South Africa.
Apantesis complicata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found on south-eastern Vancouver Island and several Gulf Islands of British Columbia and Washington. The habitat consists of dry Garry oak meadows and sandy beaches.
Terinebrica complicata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Trichromia complicata is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1905. It is found in French Guiana.
Thiotricha complicata is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in southern India and Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
Coptotelia is a moth genus of the family Depressariidae.
Coptotelia complicata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Clarke in 1951. It is found in Brazil.
Megaleuctra complicata, the Pacific needlefly, is a species of rolled-winged stonefly in the family Leuctridae. It is found in North America.
Nepheloleuca politia is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, and North America.
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