Entephria
| Entephria | |
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| Grey Mountain Carpet (E. caesiata) specimen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Subfamily: | Larentiinae |
| Tribe: | Larentiini |
| Genus: |
Entephria Hübner, 1825 |
| Type species | |
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Geometra flavicinctata Hübner, 1813 |
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| Diversity | |
| About 50 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Eutephria (lapsus) |
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Eutephria (lapsus)
Glaucopteryx Hübner, 1825
Phaesyloides Bruand, 1847
Trichochlamys Hulst, 1896
Entephria is a genus in the geometer moth family (Geometridae). There is no unambiguous common name for these moths; like many other members of their subfamily Larentiinae, they are called "carpets".
Most of its roughly 50 species occur across the Holarctic; from Europe alone, 10 species have been recorded. But some others are found in Africa, and it is suspected that numerous others are presently misplaced in Perizoma and Scotopteryx. In the past, some authors have erroneously treated Entephria species under the genus name Dasyuris.
Species of Entephria include:
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