Ourapteryx nivea

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: Geometridae
Subfamilia: Ennominae
Tribus: Ourapterygini
Genus: Ourapteryx
Species: Ourapteryx nivea

Name

Ourapteryx nivea (Butler, 1883)

Type locality: Japan, Tokei [= Tokyo].

Holotype: BMNH. female ♀.

Synonyms

• Urapteryx nivea Butler, 1883: 199

References

Primary references

• Butler, A.G. 1883. On the Moths of the Family Urapterygidæ in the Collection of the British Museum. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 17(100): 195–204. BHL DOI: 10.1111/J.1096-3642.1883.TB02020.X Reference page. 

Additional references

• Inoue, H. 1993. On nivea-group of Ourapteryx Leach and on the systematic status of O. yerburii Butler from Pakistan, with description of a new species from Korea (Geometridae, Ennominae). Tyô to Ga 44(3): 107–116. DOI: 10.18984/lepid.44.3_107 Reference page. 
• Prout, L.B. 1930: On the Japanese Geometridae of the Aigner collection. Novitates Zoologicae 35(4): 289–377. BHL Reference page. 
• Wehrli, E. 1939–1954. Subfamilie Geometrinae. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen. VII–VIII + 766 pp. + 53 pls. BHL Reference page.