Amblychia

Amblychia
Amblychia angeronaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Ennominae
Tribe: Boarmiini
Genus: Amblychia
Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1857
Synonyms
  • Elphos Guenée, 1857

Amblychia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Achille Guenée in 1857.

Description

Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head and fringed with long hair in front. Antenna of male usually bipectinated with long branches to three-fourths length. Hind tibia usually dilated and with a tuft of hair from base on inner side. Forewings of male with fovea. Apex somewhat acute and produced. Vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 7 to 9 stalked from before upper angle. Vein 11 free. Hindwings with produced outer margin at vein 4. Vein 3 from before angle of cell.[1]

Species

  • Amblychia angeronaria Guenée, 1857
  • Amblychia cavimargo (Prout, 1925)
  • Amblychia hymenaria (Guenée, 1857)
  • Amblychia infoveata Prout, 1932
  • Amblychia lutulenta (West)
  • Amblychia moltrechti (Bastelberger, 1909)
  • Amblychia nimia (Prout, 1925)
  • Amblychia pardicelata (Walker, [1863])
  • Amblychia praeumbrata (Warren, 1893)
  • Amblychia sauteri (Prout, 1914)
  • Amblychia sommereri Holloway, 1993
  • Amblychia subrubida (Warren, 1896)
  • Amblychia torrida Moore
Female

References

  1. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Savela, Markku. "Amblychia Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1857". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 24, 2018.


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