Stegania
Genus of moths
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Stegania is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was erected by Achille Guenée in 1845.
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| Stegania trimaculata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Abraxini |
| Genus: | Stegania Guenée, 1845[1] |
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Description
The palpi are minute, slender, porrect (extending forward) and hairy. The hind tibia is slightly dilated. Forewings with stalked veins 7, 8 and 9, from upper angle. Vein 10 absent.[2]
Species
- Stegania cararia (Hubner, 1790)
- Stegania dalmataria Guenée, 1857
- Stegania dilectaria (Hubner, 1790)
- Stegania frixa (Prout, 1937)
- Stegania mesonephele (Wiltshire, 1967)
- Stegania ochrearia Bang-Haas, 1910
- Stegania oranaria (Wehrli, 1930)
- Stegania postrecta (Wehrli, 1930)
- Stegania trimaculata (Villers, 1789)
- Stegania wiltshirei (Ebert, 1965)
