Amblychia
Genus of geometer moths
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Amblychia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Achille Guenée in 1857.
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| Amblychia angeronaria | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Boarmiini |
| Genus: | Amblychia Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1857 |
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Description
Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head and fringed with long hair in front. Antenna of male usually bipectinated with long branches to three-fourths length. Hind tibia usually dilated and with a tuft of hair from base on inner side. Forewings of male with fovea. Apex somewhat acute and produced. Vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 7 to 9 stalked from before upper angle. Vein 11 free. Hindwings with produced outer margin at vein 4. Vein 3 from before angle of cell.[1]
Species
- Amblychia angeronaria Guenée, 1857
- Amblychia cavimargo (Prout, 1925)
- Amblychia hymenaria (Guenée, 1857)
- Amblychia infoveata Prout, 1932
- Amblychia lutulenta (West)
- Amblychia moltrechti (Bastelberger, 1909)
- Amblychia nimia (Prout, 1925)
- Amblychia pardicelata (Walker, [1863])
- Amblychia praeumbrata (Warren, 1893)
- Amblychia sauteri (Prout, 1914)
- Amblychia sommereri Holloway, 1993
- Amblychia subrubida (Warren, 1896)
- Amblychia torrida Moore
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