Acalyphes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Subfamily: | Archiearinae |
Genus: |
Acalyphes Turner, 1926 |
Species: | A. philorites
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Binomial name | |
Acalyphes philorites Turner, 1926
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Acalyphes is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae. [1] Its single species, Acalyphes philorites, is found in Australia, where it feeds on pencil pine ( Athrotaxis cupressoides). [2] Both the genus and species were first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1926
Acalyphes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Subfamily: | Archiearinae |
Genus: |
Acalyphes Turner, 1926 |
Species: | A. philorites
|
Binomial name | |
Acalyphes philorites Turner, 1926
|
Acalyphes is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae. [1] Its single species, Acalyphes philorites, is found in Australia, where it feeds on pencil pine ( Athrotaxis cupressoides). [2] Both the genus and species were first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1926