Toomas Tammaru (born 3 May 1968 in

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) is an

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n lepidopterist and professor of entomology at the

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. Together with Andro Truuverk and Erki Õunap, he transferred the butterfly '' Epirrita pulchraria'' to the genus ''

Malacodea ''Malacodea'' is a monotypic genus in the family Geometridae. Its only species, ''Malacodea regelaria'', is found from Fennoscandia and Estonia to northern Siberia. Both the genus and species were first described by Johan Martin Jakob von Tengs ...

''. The butterfly ('' Manota toomasi'' Hippa & Kurina, 2012) is named after him. He is the editor of the publication ''Lepinfo'' of the

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