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Circopetes
Sign in to saveCircopetes is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae erected by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1910. Its only species, Circopetes obtusata, the grey twisted moth, was first described by Francis Walker in 1860. It is found in mainland Australia.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Circopetes is referenced by 4 other articles, and connects out to Geometridae, Australia and Animalia.
It sits within the topics Monotypic moth genera, Oenochrominae and Taxonbars with multiple manual Wikidata items.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Broken Leaf Moth
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyGeometridae
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- Parent taxon
- Geometridae
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- Circopetes obtusata.jpg
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Circopetes is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae erected by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1910. Its only species, Circopetes obtusata, the grey twisted moth, was first described by Francis Walker in 1860. It is found in mainland Australia.
The wingspan is about 60 mm.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Circopetes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.