''Amelora'' is a genus of Lepidoptera
moth
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s in the family geometrid moths (
geometridae
The geometer moths are moth
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) that reside in Australia.
The
Encyclopedia of Life
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(EOL) has identified four of its key attributes:
bilateral symmetry
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, biting-chewing mouthparts acting as its feeding structure, having a
holometabolous
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developmental mode, and being
multicellular
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.
Species
* ''Amelora acontistica''
(Turner, 1947)
* ''Amelora adusta''
Turner, 1947
* ''Amelora amblopa''
Guest, 1887
* ''Amelora anepiscepta''
Turner, 1947
* ''
Amelora arotraea''
Meyrick, 1892
* ''Amelora australis''
(Rosenstock, 1885)
* ''Amelora belemnophora''
Turner, 1947
*
Amelora camptodes'
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora catacris''
Meyrick, 1892
* ''Amelora ceraunia''
Turner, 1947
* ''Amelora conia''
Turner, 1947
* ''Amelora crenulata''
Turner, 1926
* ''Amelora cryphia''
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora crypsigramma''
Lower, 1899
* ''Amelora demistis''
Guest, 1887
* ''Amelora fucosa''
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora goniota''
Guest, 1887
* ''Amelora gonosemela''
(Lower, 1893)
* ''Amelora idiomorpha''
Lower, 1893
* ''Amelora leucaniata''
(Guenée, 1857)
* ''Amelora lithopepla''
Lower, 1918
* ''
Amelora macarta''
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora mesocapna''
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora milvaria''
(Guenée, 1857)
* ''Amelora newmannaria''
(Guenée, 1857)
* ''
Amelora oenobreches''
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora oncerodes''
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora oritropha''
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora pachyspila''
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora pentheres''
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora perinipha''
(Lower, 1915)
* ''Amelora petrochroa''
(Lower, 1897)
* ''Amelora polychroa''
Lower, 1907
* ''Amelora sparsularia''
(Guenée, 1857)
* ''Amelora suffusa''
Turner, 1926
*
Amelora synclera'
Turner, 1919
* ''Amelora syscia''
(Turner, 1919)
*
Amelora thegalea'
Turner, 1947
* ''Amelora zophopasta''
Turner, 1919
References
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and some other life forms''
''Amelora''.EOL. (n.d.).
Nacophorini
Geometridae genera
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