Dyspteris
{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Dyspteris abortivaria
| image = The Bad Wing, Dyspteris abortivaria, Featherstone National Wildlife Refuge, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg
| genus = Dyspteris
| species = abortivaria
| parent_authority = Hübner, 1818
| authority = (Herrich-Schaffer, 1855)
}}
Dyspteris is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae and was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1818. It is monotypic, being represented by a single species, Dyspteris abortivaria, commonly known as the bad-wing. This species was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1855 and is found in North America.{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/geometroidea/geometridae/larentiinae/dyspteris/ |title=Dyspteris Hübner, 1818 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=May 18, 2019}}
It is called "bad-wing" because its forewing is much larger than its hindwing, making it often difficult to pull into position for spreading.{{cite web |last1=Lotts |first1=Kelly |last2=Naberhaus |first2=Thomas |name-list-style=amp |date=2017 |url=https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Dyspteris-abortivaria |title=The Bad-wing Dyspteris abortivaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) |website=Butterflies and Moths of North America |accessdate=June 9, 2019}}
File:The Bad-wing moth (Dyspteris abortivaria) - Flickr - Jay Sturner.jpg
References
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{{Cite web| title=Dyspteris abortivaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=941851
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| accessdate=April 30, 2018
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{{Cite web| title=Species Details: Dyspteris abortivaria Herrich-Schäffer, 1858
| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/dcb1a45a7038a97a8096922520997589
| website=Catalogue of Life
| accessdate=April 30, 2018
}}
{{Cite web| title=Dyspteris abortivaria Herrich-Schäffer, 1858
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1961361
| website=Global Biodiversity Information Facility
| accessdate=April 30, 2018
}}
{{Cite web| title=Species Dyspteris abortivaria - The Bad-Wing - Hodges#7648
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/9326
| website=BugGuide
| last=Cotinis |date=April 28, 2012
| accessdate=April 30, 2018
}}
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Further reading
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = Beadle | first1 = David
| last2 = Leckie | first2 = Seabrooke
| date = 2012
| title = Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
| publisher = Virginia Museum of Natural History
| isbn = 0547238487
}}
- {{Cite book
| last1 = Covell | first1 = Charles V. Jr.
| date = 2005
| title = A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America
| series = Special Publication Number 12
| publisher = Virginia Museum of Natural History
| isbn = 1-884549-21-7
}}
- {{Cite book
| last1 = Grote | first1 = Aug.R.
| last2 = Robinson | first2 = C.T.
| date = 1868
| title = List of the Lepidoptera of North America
| url = https://archive.org/details/cihm_04389
| publisher = American Entomological Society
}}
- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Heppner
| first1 = J.B.
| date = 2003
| title = Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog
| url = http://freshfromflorida.s3.amazonaws.com/arthropods-of-florida-vol-17.pdf
| journal = Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas
| publisher = Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
| volume = 17
| issn = 0066-8036
| access-date = 2019-05-18
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180423112356/http://freshfromflorida.s3.amazonaws.com/arthropods-of-florida-vol-17.pdf
| archive-date = 2018-04-23
| url-status = dead
}}
- {{Cite book
| editor-last1 = Hodges | editor-first1 = Ronald W.
| date = 1983
| title = Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland
| publisher = E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation
| isbn = 9780860960164
}}
- {{Cite book
| last1 = Holloway | first1 = J.D.
| date = 1997
| title = Family Geometridae, subfamilies Sterrhinae and Larentiinae
| series = The Moths of Borneo
| publisher = Southdene Sdn. Bhd
| volume = part 10
| isbn = 983999154X
}}
- {{Cite report
| last1 = Pohl | first1 = Greg
| last2 = Patterson | first2 = Bob
| last3 = Pelham | first3 = Jonathan
| date = 2016
| title = Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
| doi = 10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287
| doi-access = free
}}
- {{Cite book
| last1 = Powell | first1 = Jerry A.
| last2 = Opler | first2 = Paul A.
| date = 2009
| title = Moths of Western North America
| publisher = University of California Press
| isbn = 9780520251977
}}
- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Viidalepp | first1 = Jaan
| date = 2006
| title = Cladistic analysis of the subfamily Larentiinae
| journal = Spixiana
| volume = 29
| issue = 3
| pages = 202–203
| issn = 0341-8391
}}
- {{Cite journal
| last1 = Yamamoto | first1 = Satoshi
| last2 = Sota | first2 = Teiji
| date = 2007
| title = Phylogeny of the Geometridae and the evolution of winter moths inferred from a simultaneous analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes
| journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
| volume = 44
| pages = 711–723
| issn = 1055-7903
}}
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External links
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Category:Moths described in 1855
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