Bistonini

The Bistonini are a tribe of geometer moths in subfamily Ennominae. As numerous ennomine genera have not yet been assigned to a tribe,[2] the genus list is preliminary. In addition, the entire tribe is sometimes[3] merged into a much-expanded Boarmiini. In other treatments,[4] the Erannini are included in the present group.

Bistonini
Mating Pachyerannis obliquaria - large-winged male above, stub-winged female below
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Ennominae
Tribe: Bistonini
Stephens, 1850
Genera

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Amphidasini Duponchel, 1845
  • Amphidasites Duponchel, 1845
  • Bistonidi Stephens, 1850
  • Eubyjinae Warren, 1893
  • Eubyjini Warren, 1893
  • Hibernites Duponchel, 1845
  • Hyberniini Duponchel, 1845

They overall resemble the Boarmiini, which are certainly closely related. Bistonini tend to retain more plesiomorphic traits (they are rather basal in the expanded Boarmiini) and contain many species that are very large and hairy by geometer moth standards, somewhat resembling Arctiidae.[5]

Selected genera and species

Footnotes
  1. Forum Herbulot (2008)
  2. See references in Savela (2010)
  3. Following Holloway (1994)
  4. See e.g. references in Savela (2010)
  5. Young (2008)

References
  • Forum Herbulot (2008): Family group names in Geometridae. Retrieved July 22, 2008.
  • Holloway, J.D. (1994): The Moths of Borneo: Family Geometridae, Subfamily Ennominae. London.
  • Savela, Markku (2008): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Ennominae. Version of June 24, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  • Young, Catherine J. (2008): Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini using adult morphology, and phylogeny of the Geometridae based on morphological characters. Zootaxa 1736: 1-141. PDF abstract and excerpt


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