Cabera

Cabera is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1825.

Selected species
In alphabetical order:
 * Cabera borealis (Hulst, 1896) – boreal cream
 * Cabera candidaria (Leech, 1897)
 * Cabera erythemaria Guenée, 1857 – yellow-dusted cream
 * Cabera exanthemata (Scopoli, 1763) – common wave
 * Cabera griseolimbata (Oberthür, 1879)
 * Cabera leptographa Wehrli, 1939
 * Cabera purus (Butler, 1878)
 * Cabera pusaria (Linnaeus, 1758) – common white wave
 * Cabera quadrifasciaria (Packard, 1873) – four-lined cream
 * Cabera schaefferi (Bremer, 1864)
 * Cabera variolaria Guenée, 1857 – the vestal

Taxonomy
Treitschke, a German lepidopterist, raised the genus in 1825; Cabera refers to Cabeiro, who was the daughter of Proteus ″the prophetic old man of the sea who kept changing his shape to avoid being caught and having to make prophesies″.