| Lampropteryx | |
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| Water carpet (Lampropteryx suffumata) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Subfamily: | Larentiinae |
| Tribe: | Cidariini |
| Genus: | Lampropteryx Stephens, 1831 |
| Type species | |
| Geometra suffumata Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lampropteryx is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae and was raised by the English entomologist, James Francis Stephens in 1831. The name is from the Greek (lampros, a wing) and (pteryx, bright); referring to the ″strong gloss on the forewings …″.