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. It is found in North America and has a forewing length of 12 millimetres.

The MONA or Hodges number for Paota fultaria is 7127.

Further reading

  • 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). . American Entomological Society.
  • Heppner, J. B. (2003). (PDF). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. 17. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. ISSN . Archived from (PDF) on 2018-04-23.
  • 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:.
  • 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 .