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Lepidoptera > Geometroidea > Geometridae > Ennominae > Ennomini > Ourapteryx

Ourapteryx margaritata (Moore, [1868])

Ourapteryx margaritata

Ourapteryx margaritata
Ourapteryx margaritata
Ourapteryx margaritata
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  1. OD: Urapteryx margaritata Moore, [1868]. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1867: 612; TL: Bengal. Text at https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofzoo1867zool#page/612/mode/1up
  2. Hampson, G. F. 1895. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.3. Taylor & Francis, London. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs. Pg. 146, # 3086 as Urapteryx margaritata.
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1995. Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo.Pg., 131, Pl. 123/7-8. 
  4. Brehm, G., Murillo-Ramos, L., Sihvonen, P., Hausmann, A., Schmidt, B.C., Õunap, E., Moser, A., Mörtter, R., Bolt, D., Bodner, F. and Lindt, A., 2019. New World geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, taxonomic updates and description of 11 new tribes. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 77(3): 457–486. For tribal placement in Ennomini. 
  5. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=155715 [accessed 18 January 2021]
Tribal position of Ourapteryx shifted to Ennomini from Ourapterygini on 18 Jan 2021 based on Brehm et al. 2019, which synonomized Ourapterygini with Ennomini.

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Anonymous. 2022. Ourapteryx margaritata (Moore, [1868]). In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Moths of India, v. 3.30. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. http://www.mothsofindia.org/sp/357535/Ourapteryx-margaritata
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