Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species

Genus:
Apocleora Wehrli, 1943 , in Seitz. Gross-Schmett. Erde. 4(Suppl.) : 528.

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
GEOMETROIDEA : GEOMETRIDAE : ENNOMINAE

Type-species:
Boarmia rimosa Butler, 1879. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5), 4: 372.    [BHL]

Type-species designation:
by original designation .

Type specimens:
Syntype(s) JAPAN: Yokohama, (BMNH, London)..

Notes:
Fletcher (1979) stated:-

Apocleora was originally proposed as a subgenus of Boarmia Treitschke, 1825.

The part of Seitz containing page 528 has appeared only in the German edition; on page 521 its date of publication is stated to be 21.viii.1943.



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Junior name(s):
Nipponalcis Inoué, 1953: 14.