Genus Clostera Samouelle, 1819

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• Clostera Samouelle, G. 1819. The Entomologist's Useful Compendium; or an introduction to the knowledge of British Insects, comprising the best means of obtaining and preserving them, and a description of the apparatus generally used; together with the genera of Linné, and modern methods of arranging the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, spiders, mites and insects, from the affinities and structure, according to the views of Dr. Leach. Also an explanation of the terms used in entomology; a calendar of the times of appearance and usual situations of near 3,000 species of British Insects; with instructions for collecting and fitting up objects for the microscope. London : Thomas Boys 496 pp. 12 pls. [247].

  Type species:

   Phalaena curtula Linnaeus, 1758 ([Europe]) by subsequent designation, see Curtis, J. 1838. Errata and Addenda. In, British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. XV folios 674–721 London : J. Curtis. [715].
• Ichthyura Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [162].

  Type species:

   Phalaena anastomosis Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1893. Moths I. In, Blandford, W.T. (ed.). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 1 xxiii+527 pp. [172] ([Europe]).
• Melalopha Hübner, J. 1822. Systematisch-alphabetisches Verzeichniss aller bisher bey den Fürbildungen zur Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge angegebenen Gattungsbenennungen; mit Vormerkung auch augsburgischer Gattungen. Augsburg : Hübner vi 81 pp. [14, 16, 19, 20].

  Type species:

   Phalaena curtula Linnaeus, 1758 ([Europe]) by subsequent designation, see Kirby, W.F. 1892. A Synonymic Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (moths). Sphinges and Bombyces. London : Gurney & Jackson Vol. 1 xii 951 pp. [609].
• Gaugamela Walker, F. 1862. Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidopterous insects collected at Sarawak, in Borneo, by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 6: 82-145, 171-198 [138].

  Type species:

   Gaugamela atrifrons Walker, 1862 (Borneo: Sarawak) by monotypy.

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