Aspitates

Aspitates is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae, native to Eurasia and North America.

Aspitates
Aspitates gilvaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Tribe:	Aspitatini
Genus:	Aspitates Treitschke, 1825
Synonyms
Parallela Sodoffsky, 1837 Aspilades Heydenreich, 1846 Aspilata Unger, 1856 Pseudosiona Butler, 1893

Selected species

• Aspitates aberrata (H. Edwards, 1884)
• Aspitates acuminaria (Eversmann, 1851)
• Aspitates albaria
• Aspitates collinaria (Holt-White, 1894)
• Aspitates conspersarius
• Aspitates forbesi
• Aspitates gilvaria – straw belle (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
• Aspitates ochrearia – yellow belle
• Aspitates orciferaria
• Aspitates stschurowskyi (Erschoff, 1874)
• Aspitates taylorae (Butler, 1893)

References

• Savela, Markku. "Aspitates Treitschke, 1825". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  • Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. British insects: the genera of Lepidoptera-Geometridae. Version: 29 December 2011 online Full description.