Cabera

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Cabera
Cabera exanthemata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Caberini
Genus: Cabera
Treitschke, 1825

Cabera is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1825.

Selected species[edit]

In alphabetical order:[1]

Taxonomy[edit]

Treitschke, a German lepidopterist, raised the genus in 1825; Cabera refers to Cabeiro, who was the daughter of Proteus ″the prophetic old man of the sea who kept changing his shape to avoid being caught and having to make prophesies″.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Cabera Treitschke, 1825". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
  2. ^ Emmet, A Maitland (1991). The Scientific Names of the British Lepidoptera. Their History and Meaning. Colchester: Harley Books. p. 183. ISBN 0 946589 28 3.