Ourapteryx Leech, 1814

Cheng, Rui, Wen, Boxin & Han, Hongxiang, 2025, Six new cryptic species of Ourapteryx Leach (Geometridae: Ennominae) from Asia, Zootaxa 5722 (4), pp. 543-554 : 544

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Genus Ourapteryx Leech, 1814 View in CoL

Ourapteryx Leach, 1814: 79 View in CoL . Type species: Phalaena sambucaria Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL , by subsequent designation by Duponchel,

1829. Acaena Treitschke, 1825: 429 View in CoL . Type species: Phalaena sambucaria Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL , by monotypy. Euctenurapteryx Warren, 1894: 399 View in CoL . Type species: Acaena maculicaudaria Motschulsky, 1866 View in CoL , by original designation. Energopteryx Thierry-Mieg, 1903: 383 View in CoL . Type species: Ourapteryx nigrociliaris Leech, 1891 View in CoL , by original designation. Phrudura Swinhoe, 1906: 554 View in CoL . Type species: Bapta pura Swinhoe, 1902 View in CoL , by original designation. Uraptera Billberg, 1820: 88 View in CoL . [Emendation of Ourapteryx Leach, 1814 View in CoL .] Uropteryx Agassiz, 1847: 267 View in CoL , 384, 385. [Emendation of Ourapteryx Leach, 1814 View in CoL , and junior homonym of Uropteryx Agassiz View in CoL ,

1835 (Pisces).]

Diagnosis. The genus is readily distinguished from related taxa by several diagnostic characters: white wings bearing straight grayish-brown transverse lines, an elongate forewing discal spot, hind wing tail on vein M 3 resembling a swallowtail, and an asymmetrical furca in the male genitalia ( Prout 1915; Inoue 1985; Cheng et al. 2024).

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