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Amelora

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ2842683
Source-derived summary

Amelora is a genus of moths in the Lepidopteran family Geometridae. Members of the reside in either South Africa or Australia.

For more precise taxonomy, the genus belongs to the Subfamily Ennominae, within which they have recently been suggested to belong to the tribe Diptychini rather than Nacophorini.

Species

Amelora acontistica (Turner, 1947)

Amelora adusta Turner, 1947

Amelora amblopa Guest, 1887

Amelora anepiscepta Turner, 1947

Amelora arotraea Meyrick, 1892

Amelora australis (Rosenstock, 1885)

Amelora belemnophora Turner, 1947

Amelora camptodes] Turner, 1919

Amelora catacris Meyrick, 1892

Amelora ceraunia Turner, 1947

Amelora conia Turner, 1947

Amelora crenulata Turner, 1926

Amelora cryphia Turner, 1919

Amelora crypsigramma Lower, 1899

Amelora demistis Guest, 1887

Amelora fucosa Turner, 1919

Amelora goniota Guest, 1887

Amelora gonosemela (Lower, 1893)

Amelora idiomorpha Lower, 1893

Amelora leucaniata (Guenée, 1857)

Amelora lithopepla Lower, 1918

Amelora macarta Turner, 1919

Amelora mesocapna Turner, 1919

Amelora milvaria (Guenée, 1857)

Amelora newmannaria (Guenée, 1857)

Amelora oenobreches Turner, 1919

Amelora oncerodes Turner, 1919

Amelora oritropha Turner, 1919

Amelora pachyspila Turner, 1919

Amelora pentheres Turner, 1919

Amelora perinipha (Lower, 1915)

Amelora petrochroa (Lower, 1897)

Amelora polychroa Lower, 1907

Amelora sparsularia (Guenée, 1857)

Amelora suffusa Turner, 1926

Amelora synclera Turner, 1919

Amelora syscia (Turner, 1919)

Amelora thegalea Turner, 1947

Amelora zophopasta Turner, 1919

References

Amelora at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms

Amelora. EOL. (n.d.).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Amelora” is genus of insects. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Amelora, genus and insects, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1887, 1892, 1885—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Amelora, genus and insects is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “genus of insects” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2842683. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947, 1887, 1892 and 1885.

Critical limits

Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Amelora” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.