Rheumaptera
Encyclopedia
Rheumaptera is a genus of moth
of the family Geometridae.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
of the family Geometridae.
Selected species
- Rheumaptera caucasica (Müller & Viidalepp)
- Rheumaptera exacta (Butler, 1882)
- Rheumaptera flavipes Ménétriés, 1858
- Rheumaptera fuegata (Staudinger, 1899)
- Rheumaptera hastata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Rheumaptera hecate (Butler, 1878)
- Rheumaptera hedemannaria Oberthür, 1880
- Rheumaptera hyrcana Staudinger, 1871
- Rheumaptera inanata Christoph, 1880
- Rheumaptera instabilis Alphéraky, 1883
- Rheumaptera latifasciaria Leech, 1891
- Rheumaptera moscardonica Laever, 1983
- Rheumaptera neocervinalis Inoue, 1982
- Rheumaptera prunivorataRheumaptera prunivorataFerguson's Scallop Shell or Cherry Scallop Shell is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario in Canada, through the eastern parts of the United States, down to Georgia....
Ferguson, 1955 - Rheumaptera ravulata Staudinger, 1892
- Rheumaptera subhastataRheumaptera subhastataThe White-banded Black Moth is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in the Palearctic and Nearctic ecozones, where it is widely distributed in western North America....
(Nolcken, 1870) - Rheumaptera turkmenica (Müller & Viidalepp)
- Rheumaptera undulataRheumaptera undulataThe Scallop Shell is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in most of the Palearctic ecozone and North America.The wingspan is 25-30 mm...
(LinnaeusCarolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
, 1758) - Rheumaptera veternata Christoph, 1880
- Rheumaptera cervinalisRheumaptera cervinalisThe Scarce Tissue, Rheumaptera cervinalis, is a moth of the genus Rheumaptera in the family Geometridae.-References:...
(Scopoli, 1763)