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Lophophelma erionoma

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ13536289 ↗
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Lophophelma erionoma is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1893. It is found in the Chinese provinces of Hunan, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hainan and Sichuan, and in the north-eastern Himalayas and Sundaland. The habitat consists of lower montane and upper montane forests.

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“Lophophelma erionoma” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lophophelma, erionoma and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lophophelma erionoma” 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.