Cleora Curtis, 1825

Young, Catherine J., 2006, Descriptions of the eggs of some southern Australian Geometridae (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 1287, pp. 1-294 : 1-294

publication ID

1175­5334

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039487D8-272D-C532-FE85-7D0FFDE6FD33

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scientific name

Cleora Curtis
status

 

Cleora Curtis View in CoL (Figs 482–487)

Fifteen species of this ubiquitous genus are distributed widely in Australia and one undescribed species is illustrated. The soft and extremely convoluted chorion of this Cleora species resembles that of the eggs of the Nearctic boarmiine (sensu Holloway 1994) Paleacrita vernata Peck ( Salkeld 1983) . McFarland (1973) illustrated the eggs of C. displicata Walker with low­magnification photographs and commented that the female inserts the soft eggs into crevices under loose bark, similar to Ectropis Hübner (see below). These eggs greatly resemble those of the species described below in terms of chorion texture, colour and shape.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

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