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

Genus:
Uliolepis Warren, 1897 . Novit. zool. 4 : 385.    [BHL]

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : LYMANTRIIDAE

Type-species:
Uliolepis pilosa Warren, 1897. Novit. zool. 4: 386.    [BHL]

Type-species designation:
by original designation .

Type specimens:
Type(s) AFGHANISTAN: Sefir-Kuh, (? Depository)..

Notes:
Fletcher (1979) stated:-

Uliolepis was originally proposed in the Geometridae, but has since been transferred to the Lymantriidae by Prout, 1938, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 4 (Suppl.): 216.

Watson, Fletcher & Nye (1980) stated:-

U. pilosa is a junior subjective synonym of Ocneria signatoria Christoph, 1893, Dt. ent. Z. Iris 6: 88.

Uliolepis was established in the Geometridae; it was transferred to the Lymantriidae by Prout, 1938, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 4 (Suppl.): 216.

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Junior name(s):
Pseudolabis Hartig, 1963: 66.