Plataea (moth)

Plataea
Plataea trilinearia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Subfamily:	Ennominae
Tribe:	Ourapterygini
Genus:	Plataea Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
Synonyms[1]
Gorytodes Guenée, 1857 Apicrena Pearsall, 1911

Plataea is a genus of geometrid moths in the family Geometridae. There are about 11 described species in Plataea.[2][3][4][5][6]

Species

These 11 species belong to the genus Plataea:

• Plataea aristidesi Rindge, 1976^c g
• Plataea blanchardaria Knudson, 1986^i g b
• Plataea calcaria (Pearsall, 1911)^i c g b
• Plataea californiaria Herrich-Schäffer, 1856^i c g b
• Plataea diva Hulst, 1896^i c g b
• Plataea mexicana Druce, 1899^c g
• Plataea pausaniasi Rindge, 1976^c g
• Plataea personaria (H. Edwards, 1881)^i c g b
• Plataea polychroma Ferris & McFarland, 2010^i g b
• Plataea trilinearia (Packard, 1873)^i c g b (sagebrush girdle)
• Plataea ursaria Cassino & Swett, 1922^i c g b

Data sources: i = ITIS,[2] c = Catalogue of Life,[3] g = GBIF,[4] b = Bugguide.net[5]

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Plataea Herrich-Schäffer, 1855". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
2. "Plataea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
3. "Browse Plataea". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
4. "Plataea". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
5. "Plataea Genus Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
6. "Plataea Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-10.

Further reading

• Beadle, David; Leckie, Seabrooke (2012). Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 978-0547238487.
• Covell, Charles V. Jr. (2005). A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication Number 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 1-884549-21-7.
• Grote, Aug.R.; Robinson, C.T. (1868). List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
• Heppner, J.B. (2003). "Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog" (PDF). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. 17. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. ISSN 0066-8036. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
• Hodges, Ronald W., ed. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. ISBN 9780860960164.
• Pitkin, Linda M. (2002). "Neotropical ennomine moths: a review of the genera (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 135 (2–3): 121–401. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00012.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
• Powell, Jerry A.; Opler, Paul A. (2009). Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520251977.
• Sihvonen, Pasi; Mutanen, Marko; Kaila, Lauri; Brehm, Gunnar; et al. (2011). "Comprehensive molecular sampling yields a robust phylogeny for Geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)". PLOS ONE. 6 (6): e20356. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...620356S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020356. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3106010. PMID 21673814.
• Yamamoto, Satoshi; Sota, Teiji (2007). "Phylogeny of the Geometridae and the evolution of winter moths inferred from a simultaneous analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44 (2): 711–723. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.12.027. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 17363285.

External links

• Media related to Plataea (moth) at Wikimedia Commons