Paota

For the town in Himachal Pradesh, see Paonta Sahib.

Paota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Paota Hulst, 1896
Species:	P. fultaria
Binomial name
Paota fultaria (Grote, 1882)

Paota is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae described by George Duryea Hulst in 1896. Its only species, Paota fultaria, was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1882. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} It is found in North America ^[1] and has a forewing length of 12 millimetres. ^[6]

The MONA or Hodges number for Paota fultaria is 7127. ^[7]

References

1. "Paota fultaria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
2. "Paota fultaria species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
3. "Paota fultaria". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
4. "Paota fultaria Species Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
5. Savela, Markku. "Paota Hulst, 1896". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
6. "Paota Fultaria guide". Bug guide.
7. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Paota fultaria" . Retrieved 2018-05-02.

Further reading

• Beadle, David; Leckie, Seabrooke (2012). Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN   0547238487.
• Covell, Charles V. Jr. (2005). A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication Number 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN   1-884549-21-7.
• Grote, Aug. R.; Robinson, C. T. (1868). List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
• Heppner, J. B. (2003). "Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog" (PDF). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. 17. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. ISSN   0066-8036. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
• Hodges, Ronald W., ed. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. ISBN   9780860960164.
• Holloway, J. D. (1997). Family Geometridae, subfamilies Sterrhinae and Larentiinae. The Moths of Borneo. Vol. part 10. Southdene Sdn. Bhd. ISBN   983999154X.
• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287 .
• Powell, Jerry A.; Opler, Paul A. (2009). Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520251977.
• Yamamoto, Satoshi; Sota, Teiji (2007). "Phylogeny of the Geometridae and the evolution of winter moths inferred from a simultaneous analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44: 711–723. ISSN   1055-7903.