Bistonini

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

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

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.

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]

  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)