Amelora
genus of insects

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.).
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