Genus Amelora Guest, 1887

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• Amelora Guest, E. 1887. A classified list of Geometrina found around Balhannah, with notes on species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 126-141.

  Type species:

   Panagra sparsularia Guenée, 1857 by subsequent designation, see Fletcher, D.S. 1979. Geometroidea: Apoprogonidae, Axiidae, Callidulidae, Cyclidiidae, Drepanidae, Epicopieiidae, Epiplemidae, Geometridae, Pterothysanidae, Sematuridae, Thyatiridae, Uraniidae. In, Nye, I.W.B. (ed.). The Generic Names of Moths of the World. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 xx 243 pp. [9] (designated by Fletcher (1979)).
• Liodes Guenée, A. 1857. Title unknown. p. 119 in Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 10 584 pp., 24 pls. [119] (Junior homonym of Liodes Heyden, 1826 (Arachnida)).

  Type species:

   Liodes leucaniata Guenée, [1858] by subsequent designation, see Fletcher, D.S. 1979. Geometroidea: Apoprogonidae, Axiidae, Callidulidae, Cyclidiidae, Drepanidae, Epicopieiidae, Epiplemidae, Geometridae, Pterothysanidae, Sematuridae, Thyatiridae, Uraniidae. In, Nye, I.W.B. (ed.). The Generic Names of Moths of the World. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 xx 243 pp. [214].
• Xantholepidote Gumppenberg, C. von 1887. Systema Geometrarum zonae temperiatoris septentrionalis. Erster Theil. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 49: 229-400 [342] (Unnecessary replacement name for Liodes Guenée, 1857) [replacement name].

  Type species:

   Liodes leucaniata Guenée, [1858] by subsequent designation, see Fletcher, D.S. 1979. The Generic Names of Moths of the World. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 167 pp. [214].
• Amelora Meyrick, 1892 [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Panagra sparsularia Guenée, 1857 by subsequent designation, see Fletcher, D.S. 1979. The Generic Names of Moths of the World. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 167 pp. [9].

  Secondary source:

   Meyrick, E. 1892. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 6(4): 581-678 [646] (Junior homonym and junior objective synonym of Amelora Guest, 1887).
• Stinoptila Turner, A.J. 1947. New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 58: 71-112 [103].

  Type species:

   Stinoptila acontistica Turner, 1947 by monotypy, see Fletcher, D.S. 1979. Geometroidea: Apoprogonidae, Axiidae, Callidulidae, Cyclidiidae, Drepanidae, Epicopieiidae, Epiplemidae, Geometridae, Pterothysanidae, Sematuridae, Thyatiridae, Uraniidae. In, Nye, I.W.B. (ed.). The Generic Names of Moths of the World. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 xx 243 pp. [196].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McQuillan, P.B. 1996. The Tasmanian geometrid moths associated with the genus Amelora auctorum (Lepidopetra: Geometridae: Ennominae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 433-506 [435] (Xantholepidopte, Stinoptila)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Australia. Semi-desert shrubland, mallee, sclerop;hyll forest, coastal heath, subalpine forest, moorland plateaux to 1600 m.

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Well-developed socii, elongate unadorned valvae with distinct setal patch. Atrophied apophyses anteriores.

 

Diagnosis References

McQuillan, P.B. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Geometridae. pp. 200-228 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [436]

 

General References

McQuillan, P.B. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Geometridae. pp. 200-228 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [201] (Note #276: Amelora Guest, 1887 was published in March 1887. We have been unable to find an exact date of publication for Xantholepidote Gumppenberg, 1887 so a date of 31 December 1887 [was] adopted)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Feb-2022	GEOMETROIDEA	04-Dec-2021	MODIFIED	Dr Cathy Byrne (TMAG) Di Moyle (TMAG)
21-Feb-2022	GEOMETRIDAE	10-Jun-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
21-Feb-2022		25-Nov-2013	MODIFIED
21-Feb-2022		28-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		26-May-2010	MODIFIED