Anomogenes

Anomogenes
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Anomogenes morphnopa, male specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Subfamily:	Geometrinae
Genus:	Anomogenes Turner, 1932
Species:	A. morphnopa
Binomial name
Anomogenes morphnopa Turner, 1932
Synonyms
Pseudoterpna bryophanes Turner, 1904

Anomogenes is a monotypic genus of moths in the Geometrinae subfamily of the Geometridae family of geometer moths. It consists of only the Anomogenes morphnopa species found in Western Queensland, Australia. Alfred Jefferis Turner first described the species in 1932.

Description

The adult wingspan of Anomogenes morphnopa is around 26 mm for males and 34 mm for females. The moths have grey abdomens and brown patches on their triangular forewings. Its inchworm caterpillars tend to feed on finger lime.

Taxonomy

Etymology

The name Anomogenes comes from the Greek άνομογενης (anomoiogenis), meaning unhomogeneous, or heterogeneous ("alien" as described by Turner). As for morphnopa, its name supposedly comes from the Greek "μορφνωπος" ("morphnopo", "dark" per Turner), likely derivative of μορφόω (morphóō), meaning to shape or form.

History

On August 11, 1932, Dr. Alfred Jefferis Turner, an Australian pediatrician and amateur entomologist, described the genus and its A. morphnopa species in a journal of the Royal Society of South Australia. Turner received larvae from the Queensland Department of Agriculture which he bred two specimens from. Those types were given to the Queensland Museum. In total, Turner described 16 new genera and 54 new species of lepidoptera in the same journal article. He did so with much assistance from his colleague, English entomologist Alice Ellen Prout.

References

• Anomogenes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• Herbison-Evans, Don; Crossley, Sara (15 June 2015). Anomogenes morphnopa at Coffs Harbour Butterfly House