| Cabera | |
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| Cabera exanthemata | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
In alphabetical order:[1]
- Cabera borealis (Hulst, 1896) – boreal cream
- Cabera candidaria (Leech, 1897)
- Cabera erythemaria Guenée, 1857 – yellow-dusted cream
- Cabera exanthemata (Scopoli, 1763) – common wave
- Cabera griseolimbata (Oberthür, 1879)
- Cabera leptographa Wehrli, 1939
- Cabera purus (Butler, 1878)
- Cabera pusaria (Linnaeus, 1758) – common white wave
- Cabera quadrifasciaria (Packard, 1873) – four-lined cream
- Cabera schaefferi (Bremer, 1864)
- Cabera variolaria Guenée, 1857 – the vestal
Taxonomy
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
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Cabera Treitschke, 1825". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
- ^ 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.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Geometridae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
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