larentiine

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noun

Any moth in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounlarentiine (plural larentiines)

plural larentiines

  1. biologyAny moth in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae.

    We report a larentiine species, Collix stellata Warren, for the first time from Korea.

    2011 July 29, Sei-Woong Choi, “A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea”, in The Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology
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    The present study provides a first inventory of the primary type specimens of larentiine moth species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) described from Indonesia.

    2015 July 17, Olga Schmidt, “List of primary types of the larentiine moth species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) described from Indonesia - a starting point for biodiversity assessment of the subfamily in the region”, in Biodivers Data Journal

Origin

  1. translingualLarentiinae
  2. Englishlarentiine

From translingual Larentiinae.

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larentiine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/larentiine

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Chicago

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