Scopulini

Scopulini
Scopula imitaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Geometroidea
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Sterrhinae
Tribe: Scopulini
Duponchel, 1845
Genus

See text

Synonyms
  • Aletinae Hampson, 1918
  • Aletini
  • Problepsini Wiltshire, 1990

Scopulini is a tribe of the geometer moth family (Geometridae), with about 900 species in seven genera. The tribe was described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1845.

Systematics

Scopulini as a family name is an old synonym of the subfamily Sterrhinae (Meyrick, 1892). The tribe Scopulini is divided into seven genera, of which only Scopula and Problepsis have species in Europe.

  • Scopulini Duponchel, 1845
    • Dithalama Meyrick, 1888 (4 species in Australia and Tasmania)
    • Isoplenodia Prout, 1932 (4 species in Africa)
    • Lipomelia Warren, 1893 (1 species from India to Taiwan)
    • Somatina Guenée, 1858 (44 species in Africa, East Asia and Australia)
    • Zythos D. S. Fletcher, 1979 (11 species from Indonesia up to Papua-New Guinea)
    • Problepsis Lederer, 1853 (51 species in the Palearctic, Africa, South-East Asia to Australia)
    • Scopula Schrank, 1802 (including Glossotrophia Prout, 1913 and Holarctias Prout, 1913) (over 800 species)

Phylogenetics

The Phylogenetics of Scopulini was described in detail in 2005 by Pasi Sihvonen.

 Sterrhinae 

 

 Outgroup (Idaea)

 
   Scopulini 

 

 

 

 

 incertae sedis

 
 

 

 Isoplenodia

 
 

 Dithalama

 
 
 
 

 

 Zythos

 
 

 Somatina

 
 
 
 

 

 

 Lipomelia

 
 

 Problepsis

 
 
 

 incertae sedis

 
 

 Scopula

 
 
 
 
 

Literature

  • Hausmann, Axel The Geometrid Moths of Europe, 2. Sterrhinae. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 2004, ISBN 87-88757-37-4
  • Abraham, D.; Ryrholm, N.; Wittzell, H.; Holloway, J. D.; Scoble, M. J.; Lofstedt, C.: "Molecular phylogeny of the subfamilies in Geometridae (Geometroidea: Lepidoptera)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 20(1): 65-77 (2001)
  • Sihvonen, Pasi (April 1, 2005). "Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 473–530. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x.


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