Cyphura extensa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Geometroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Cladus: Macroheterocera Superfamilia: Geometroidea

Familia: Uraniidae
Subfamilia: Uraniinae
Genus: Cyphura
Subgenus: Cyphura (Xysterophora)
Subspecies: Cyphura extensa

Name

Cyphura extensa (Rothschild, 1915)

Type locality: Dutch New Guinea, Base Camp, Utakwa River.

Holotype: BMNH. male ♂. XI.1912. legit Wollaston. BMNH(E)1325329.

Synonymy

• Urapteroides atromentaria extensa Rothschild, 1915: 103 (Original combination) (as "Urapteroides atromentaria [sic] extensa")
• Cyphura (Xysterophora) extensa (Rothschild, 1915); stat. nov. Sinnema & Sinnema-Bloemen, 2016: 158.

References

Primary references

• Rothschild, L.W. 1916. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea (Macrolepidoptera). 182 pp., 2 pls. Zoological Museum, Tring. Text, plates. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Sinnema, S.G. & Sinnema-Bloemen, J.W. 2016. Revision of the genus Cyphura Warren, 1902. Part I: Introduction of the New Subgenus Xysterophora with Two new species from New Guinea (Lepidoptera: Uraniidae: Uraniinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 159(3): 143–163 DOI: 10.1163/22119434-15903004. Reference page.