Biology:Lophothorax

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Short description: Genus of moths

Lophothorax
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Pseudoterpnini
Genus: Lophothorax
Turner, 1939
Species:
L. eremnopis
Binomial name
Lophothorax eremnopis
(Turner, 1922)
Synonyms
  • Crypsiphona eremnopis Turner, 1922
  • Lophothorax alamphodes Turner, 1939

Lophothorax is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae. It consists of only one species, Lophothorax eremnopis, which is found in Australia (South Australia and Western Australia). Both the genus and the species were first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner, the species in 1922 and the genus in 1939.

The larvae feed on Dodonaea bursariifolia.[1]

References

  1. Pitkin, Linda M.; Han, Hongxiang; James, Shayleen (2007). "Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150: 334–412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x. http://www.aseanbiodiversity.info/Abstract/51012319.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q6678597 entry