Amelora Explained

Amelora is a genus of Lepidoptera moths in the family geometrid moths (geometridae) that reside in Australia.^[1] The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has identified four of its key attributes: bilateral symmetry, biting-chewing mouthparts acting as its feeding structure, having a holometabolous developmental mode, and being multicellular.

Species

• Amelora acontistica (Turner, 1947)
• Amelora adusta Turner, 1947
• Amelora amblopa Guest, 1887
• Amelora anepiscepta Turner, 1947
• Amelora arotraea Meyrick, 1892
• Amelora australis (Rosenstock, 1885)
• Amelora belemnophora Turner, 1947
• Amelora camptodes Turner, 1919
• Amelora catacris Meyrick, 1892
• Amelora ceraunia Turner, 1947
• Amelora conia Turner, 1947
• Amelora crenulata Turner, 1926
• Amelora cryphia Turner, 1919
• Amelora crypsigramma Lower, 1899
• Amelora demistis Guest, 1887
• Amelora fucosa Turner, 1919
• Amelora goniota Guest, 1887
• Amelora gonosemela (Lower, 1893)
• Amelora idiomorpha Lower, 1893
• Amelora leucaniata (Guenée, 1857)
• Amelora lithopepla Lower, 1918
• Amelora macarta Turner, 1919
• Amelora mesocapna Turner, 1919
• Amelora milvaria (Guenée, 1857)
• Amelora newmannaria (Guenée, 1857)
• Amelora oenobreches Turner, 1919
• Amelora oncerodes Turner, 1919
• Amelora oritropha Turner, 1919
• Amelora pachyspila Turner, 1919
• Amelora pentheres Turner, 1919
• Amelora perinipha (Lower, 1915)
• Amelora petrochroa (Lower, 1897)
• Amelora polychroa Lower, 1907
• Amelora sparsularia (Guenée, 1857)
• Amelora suffusa Turner, 1926
• Amelora synclera Turner, 1919
• Amelora syscia (Turner, 1919)
• Amelora thegalea Turner, 1947
• Amelora zophopasta Turner, 1919

References

• Amelora at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
• Amelora. EOL. (n.d.).

Notes and References

1. McQuillan . Peter . 1996-01-01 . The Tasmanian geometrid moths associated with the genus Amelora auctorum (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) . en . 10.1071/IT9960433.