Nepheloleuca
Sign in to saveNepheloleuca, is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1883. The genus includes twelve species, similar in appearance, yet different in ground color and with minor variations in markings. Nepheloleuca species occur on the Caribbean islands of Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica, but also on mainland South America.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- Family
- Geometridae
- Collections
- MNHN, MZLU, ANSP
- Recorded in
- Martinique, Colombie, éQuateur, PéRou, BréSil, Guatemala, Bolivie, Equateur
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Nepheloleuca, is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1883. The genus includes twelve species, similar in appearance, yet different in ground color and with minor variations in markings. Nepheloleuca species occur on the Caribbean islands of Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica, but also on mainland South America.
==Selected species== Nepheloleuca absentimacula Warren, 1900 Nepheloleuca complicata (Guenee, 1858) Nepheloleuca floridata (Grote, 1883) Nepheloleuca peruviana Herbulot, 2002 Nepheloleuca politia (Cramer, 1777) Nepheloleuca semiplaga Warren, 1894
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