Oberthueria

Oberthueria
Oberthueria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Endromidae
Genus: Oberthueria
Kirby, 1892
Type species
Euphranor caeca
Oberthür, 1880[1]
Synonyms
  • Euphranor Oberthür, 1880
  • Euphraor Kirby, 1892
  • Oberthueria Staudinger, 1892
  • Oberthüria Staudinger, 1892

Oberthueria is a genus of moths of the Endromidae family. The genus was previously placed in the subfamily Oberthueriinae of the Bombycidae family.[2]

Selected pecies

  • Oberthueria caeca (Oberthür, 1880)
  • Oberthueria falcigera (Butler, 1878)
  • Oberthueria formosibia Matsumura, 1927

References

  1. ^ "Butterflies and Moths of the World". Nhm.ac.uk. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=19947.0. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 
  2. ^ "Increased gene sampling yields robust support for higher-level clades within Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera)". Onlinelibrary.wiley.com. 2010-09-30. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00543.x/full. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 
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