Dyspteris Explained

Dyspteris is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae and was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1818. It is monotypic, being represented by a single species, Dyspteris abortivaria, commonly known as the bad-wing. This species was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1855 and is found in North America.^[1]

It is called "bad-wing" because its forewing is much larger than its hindwing, making it often difficult to pull into position for spreading.^[2]

Further reading

• Book: Beadle . David. Leckie . Seabrooke. 2012. Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. 0547238487.
• Book: Covell . Charles V. Jr.. 2005. A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication Number 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. 1-884549-21-7.
• Book: Grote . Aug.R.. Robinson . C.T.. 1868. List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
• Heppner. J.B.. 2003. Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 17. 0066-8036. 2019-05-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20180423112356/http://freshfromflorida.s3.amazonaws.com/arthropods-of-florida-vol-17.pdf. 2018-04-23. dead.
• Book: Hodges . Ronald W.. 1983. Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. 9780860960164.
• Book: Holloway . J.D.. 1997. Family Geometridae, subfamilies Sterrhinae and Larentiinae. The Moths of Borneo. Southdene Sdn. Bhd. part 10. 983999154X.
• Pohl . Greg. Patterson . Bob. Pelham . Jonathan. 2016. Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. 10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287. free.
• Book: Powell . Jerry A.. Opler . Paul A.. 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. 9780520251977.
• Viidalepp . Jaan. 2006. Cladistic analysis of the subfamily Larentiinae. Spixiana. 29. 3. 202–203. 0341-8391.
• Yamamoto . Satoshi. Sota . Teiji. 2007. Phylogeny of the Geometridae and the evolution of winter moths inferred from a simultaneous analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44. 711–723. 1055-7903.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Savela . Markku . Dyspteris Hübner, 1818 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . May 18, 2019.
2. Web site: Lotts . Kelly . Naberhaus . Thomas . amp . 2017 . The Bad-wing Dyspteris abortivaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) . Butterflies and Moths of North America . June 9, 2019.