Letispe is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae described by Alexander Douglas Campbell Ferguson in 2008. Its one described species, Letispe metanemaria, described by George Duryea Hulst in 1887, is found in southwest North America in Arizona, California, Sonora and Baja California.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Letispe Ferguson, 2008 |
| Species: | L. metanemaria
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| Binomial name | |
| Letispe metanemaria (Hulst, 1887)
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References
edit- ^ "Letispe Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
- ^ "Letispe Genus Information". BugGuide. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Letispe Ferguson, 2008". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
Further reading
edit- Sihvonen, Pasi; Mutanen, Marko; Kaila, Lauri; Brehm, Gunnar; et al. (2011). "Comprehensive molecular sampling yields a robust phylogeny for Geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)". PLOS ONE. 6 (6): e20356. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...620356S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020356. PMC 3106010. PMID 21673814.
- Scoble, Malcolm J., ed. (1999). Geometrid moths of the world: a catalogue (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 978-0643063044.
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.