| Thalassodes opalina | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Thalassodes |
| Species: | T. opalina |
| Binomial name | |
| Thalassodes opalina Butler, 1880 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Thalassodes opalina is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Asia, where it is known from India, Thailand, Taiwan, and China. [1]
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 γῆ or γαῖα "the earth", 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.
Larentiinae is a subfamily of moths containing roughly 5,800 species that occur mostly in the temperate regions of the world. They are generally considered a subfamily of the geometer moth family (Geometridae) and are divided into a few large or good-sized tribes, and numerous very small or even monotypic ones which might not always be valid. Well-known members are the "pug moths" of the Eupitheciini and the "carpets", mainly of the Cidariini and Xanthorhoini. The subfamily was described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1845.
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.
Thalassodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857.
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.
Louis Beethoven Prout (1864–1943) was an English entomologist and musicologist.
Pelagodes maipoensis is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is known only from the Mai Po Nature Reserve and the Hong Kong Wetland Park.
Thalassodes chloropsis is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1886. It is found in Fiji.
Orothalassodes falsaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in north-eastern India, Peninsular Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and Bali. Records from Taiwan are misidentifications of Orothalassodes pervulgatus.
Orothalassodes pervulgatus is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Pakistan, north-eastern India, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines (Luzon).
Thalassodes quadraria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in Africa south of the Sahara and in India and Sri Lanka.
Thalassodes hyraria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found on Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
William Warren was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
Orothalassodes leucospilota is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Moore in 1887. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Pelagodes clarifimbria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Prout in 1919. It is found in Sri Lanka, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.
Pelagodes furvifimbria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Prout in 1917. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Thalassodes immissaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in the Oriental tropics of China, India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Japan, Borneo, Vietnam, Sumatra, Sulawesi and the Ryukyu Islands. The populations in Ryukyu are often classified as a subspecies - Thalassodes immissaria intaminataInoue, 1971.
Thalassodes veraria, is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1858. It is found in Sri Lanka, Fiji, India, Java, Malaysia, New Guinea and Australia.
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