''Selenia'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...
s in the family
Geometridae
The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek ''geo'' γεω (derivative form of or "the earth"), and ''metr ...
erected by
Jacob Hübner
Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of ''Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge'' (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology.
Scientific career
Hübner was the author of '' ...
in 1823.
In 1999, there were about twenty-four species in the genus.
Species
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Selenia alciphearia''
Walker, 1860 - brown-tipped thorn, northern selenia
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Selenia cacocore''
Dyar, 1918
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Selenia dentaria''
(Fabricius, 1775) - early thorn
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Selenia eucore''
Dyar, 1918
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Selenia gynaecon''
Dyar, 1918
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Selenia kentaria''
(Grote & Robinson, 1867) - Kent's geometer
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Selenia lunularia
''Selenia lunularia'', the lunar thorn, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Europe except Iberia and Greece; also in Asia Minor, Armenia, Siberia Issyk-Kul.
The wingspan is 38–44 mm. The length of the forewings is 1 ...
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(Hübner, 1788) - lunar thorn
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Selenia sordida''
(Leech, 1897)
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Selenia tetralunaria
The purple thorn (''Selenia tetralunaria'') is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767. It is a species of northern and central Europe. It has a scattered distribution in Britain b ...
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(Hufnagel, 1767) - purple thorn
References
Ennomini
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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