Erannis

Erannis is a geometer moth genus of the subfamily Ennominae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It is placed by some entomologists in the tribe Erannini as the type genus, but others merge this group into the tribe Boarmiini or Bistonini.

Erannis
Male mottled umber (Erannis defoliaria)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Ennominae
Tribe: Erannini (?)
Genus: Erannis
Hübner, [1825]
Type species
Phalaena defoliaria
Clerck, 1759
Diversity
About 12 described species
Synonyms

Numerous, see text

The adults of these smallish moths typically live in the crowns of their host trees. The genus is most diverse in the Holarctic; few of the twelve or so known species occur in adjacent regions.[1]

Selected species

Erannis species include:[2]

  • Erannis ankeraria (Staudinger, 1861)
  • Erannis caspica László, 2003
  • Erannis declinans (Staudinger, 1879)
  • Erannis defoliaria (Clerck, 1759) – mottled umber
  • Erannis golda Djakonov, 1929
  • Erannis jacobsoni Djakonov, 1926
  • Erannis kashmirensis László, 2003
  • Erannis potopolskii Viidalepp, 1988
  • Erannis tiliaria (Harris, 1841) – linden looper, winter moth
  • Erannis vancouverensis Hulst, 1896 (sometimes in E. tiliaria)

Synonyms

The genus has also been listed under the following now-obsolete alternate names:[3]

  • Chimadia Speyer, 1839
  • Erranis (lapsus)
  • Hibernia (lapsus)
  • Hyberna (lapsus)
  • Hybernia Berthold, 1827
  • Lampetia Stephens, 1827
  • Thriptera Gistel, 1848 (non Solier, 1836: preoccupied)

Footnotes
  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), László (2003)
  2. László (2003), and see references in Savela (2001)
  3. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)

References
  • László, Gyula M. (2003): New species of the genus Erannis Hübner, [1825] 1816 from the North-West Himalaya and Iran (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 49 (2): 153-158. PDF fulltext
  • Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Erannis. Version of November 5, 2004. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  • Savela, Markku (2001): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Erannis. Version of December 9, 2001. Retrieved January 12, 2011.


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