Paota is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae described by George Duryea Hulst in 1896. Its only species, Paota fultaria, was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1882.[1][2][3][4][5] It is found in North America[1] and has a forewing length of 12 millimetres.[6]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Paota Hulst, 1896 |
| Species: | P. fultaria
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| Binomial name | |
| Paota fultaria (Grote, 1882)
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References
edit- ^ a b "Paota fultaria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ "Paota fultaria species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ "Paota fultaria". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ "Paota fultaria Species Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Paota Hulst, 1896". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
- ^ "Paota Fultaria guide". Bug guide.
- ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Paota fultaria". Retrieved 2018-05-02.
Further reading
edit- Beadle, David; Leckie, Seabrooke (2012). Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 0547238487.
- Covell, Charles V. Jr. (2005). A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication Number 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 1-884549-21-7.
- Grote, Aug. R.; Robinson, C. T. (1868). List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
- Heppner, J. B. (2003). "Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog" (PDF). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. 17. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. ISSN 0066-8036. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- Hodges, Ronald W., ed. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. ISBN 9780860960164.
- Holloway, J. D. (1997). Family Geometridae, subfamilies Sterrhinae and Larentiinae. The Moths of Borneo. Vol. part 10. Southdene Sdn. Bhd. ISBN 983999154X.
- 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.
- Powell, Jerry A.; Opler, Paul A. (2009). Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520251977.
- Yamamoto, Satoshi; Sota, Teiji (2007). "Phylogeny of the Geometridae and the evolution of winter moths inferred from a simultaneous analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44: 711–723. ISSN 1055-7903.
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