Urania (genus)
| Urania | |
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| U. boisduvalii, Cuba | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Geometroidea |
| Family: | Uraniidae |
| Subfamily: | Uraniinae |
| Genus: | Urania Fabricius, 1807[1] |
| Synonyms | |
Urania is a genus of moths in the family Uraniidae.
The genus name Urania is New Latin from Latin Urania from Ancient Greek Ουρανία, one of the Muses, literally 'The Heavenly One'.[9][10]
Distribution
The genus includes relatively large day-flying moths that are found in the Central American and South American regions.
Species
- Urania boisduvalii Guérin-Meneville, 1829 (Cuba)
- Urania brasiliensis Swainson, 1833 (Brazil)
- Urania leilus Linnaeus, 1758 (Tropical South America east of the Andes)
- Urania fulgens Walker, 1854 (Mexico, through Central America to northwestern South America)
- Urania poeyi Herrich-Schäffer, 1866 (Eastern Cuba)
- Urania sloanus Cramer, 1779 (Jamaica; extinct ca. 1894)
 Illustration of the now extinct Urania sloanus in Cramer & Stoll's "De uitlandsche kapellen: voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America". |
References
- ↑ Urania at funet
- ↑ [Illiger], 1807; Allgem. Lit. Ztg. Halle [Jena] 1807 (No. 2): 1181
- ↑ Hübner, [1807]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : pl. [200],
- ↑ Billberg, 1820; Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb.: 81
- ↑ Dalman, 1825; K. VetenskAcad. Handl. 1824 (2) : 407
- ↑ Swainson, 1833; Zool. Illustr. (2): pls. 125-126
- ↑ Walker, 1854; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 1: 4
- ↑ Westwood, 1879; Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 10 : 516, 520-521
- ↑ Lees, David and Neal Smith (1991) Foodplants of the Uraniinae (Uraniinae) and their Systematic, Evolutionary and Ecological Significance or an OCR of the pdf document. In Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, vol. 45. Retrieved October 29, 2006.
- ↑ The Century Dictionary by The Century Company.Available online.
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