| Scopula orbeorum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. orbeorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula orbeorum (Hausmann, 1996) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Scopula orbeorum is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Axel Hausmann in 1996. [1] It is found in northern Iran. [2]
The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek geo γεω, and metron μέτρον "measure" in reference to the way their larvae, or inchworms, appear to measure the earth as they move along in a looping fashion. A very large family, it has around 23,000 species of moths described, and over 1400 species from six subfamilies indigenous to North America alone. A well-known member is the peppered moth, Biston betularia, which has been subject of numerous studies in population genetics. Several other geometer moths are notorious pests.
The Arctiinae are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This subfamily includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths, which usually have bright colours, footmen, which are usually much drabber, lichen moths, and wasp moths. Many species have "hairy" caterpillars that are popularly known as woolly bears or woolly worms. The scientific name Arctiinae refers to this hairiness. Some species within the Arctiinae have the word "tussock"' in their common names because they have been misidentified as members of the Lymantriinae subfamily based on the characteristics of the larvae.
Though small in absolute diversity of genera, the Hemitheini are nonetheless the largest tribes of geometer moths in the subfamily Geometrinae. Like most Geometrinae, they are small greenish "emerald moths". The tribe was first described by Charles Théophile Bruand d'Uzelle in 1846.
Scopula immorata, the Lewes wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout Europe and the Near East.
Scopula immutata, the lesser cream wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found throughout Europe.
Zythos is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was described by David Stephen Fletcher in 1979.
Sterrhinae is a large subfamily of geometer moths with some 3,000 described species, with more than half belonging to the taxonomically difficult, very diverse genera, Idaea and Scopula. This subfamily was described by Edward Meyrick in 1892. They are the most diverse in the tropics with the number of species decreasing with increasing latitude and elevation.
Zythos turbata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1862. It is found in southern Myanmar and on Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Peninsular Malaysia and the Philippines.
Louis Beethoven Prout (1864–1943) was an English entomologist and musicologist.
The Pseudoterpnini are a tribe of geometer moths in the subfamily Geometrinae. The tribe was described by Warren in 1893. It was alternatively treated as subtribe Pseudoterpniti by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1996.
Scopula andalusiaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Spain and western North Africa.
Scopula subpunctaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from northern and north-eastern China to the southern Palearctic realm.
Scopula modicaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by John Henry Leech in 1897. It is found in China, the Russian Far East, Korea and Japan.
William Warren was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
Zythos clypeata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Katsumi Yazaki in 1996. It is found on the island of Leyte in the Philippines.
Zythos erotica is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1932. It is found on Sulawesi.
Zythos modesta is a moth of the family Geometridaefirst described by Katsumi Yazaki in 1996. It is found on the island of Bohol in the Philippines.
Zythos fastigata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1938. It is found on Sulawesi.
Zythos strigata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1896. It is found on Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Bali and Palawan and Balabac Island in the Philippines.
Zythos cupreata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Arnold Pagenstecher in 1888. It is found on the Maluku Islands in Indonesia.