Biology:Calledapteryx

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Short description: Genus of moths

Calledapteryx
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Uraniidae
Genus: Calledapteryx
Grote, 1868
Species:
C. dryopterata
Binomial name
Calledapteryx dryopterata
Grote, 1868

Calledapteryx is a monotypic scoopwing moth genus in the family Uraniidae. Its only species, Calledapteryx dryopterata, the brown scoopwing moth, is found in eastern North America.[1] Both the genus and species were first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1868.[2][3][4][5]

References

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q28168980 entry