Geometrinae Leach 1815
Creators: name: Murillo-Ramos, Leidys
name: Brehm, Gunnar
name: Sihvonen, Pasi
name: Hausmann, Axel
name: Holm, Sille
name: Ghanavi, Hamid Reza
name: Õunap, Erki
name: Truuverk, Andro
name: Staude, Hermann
name: Friedrich, Egbert
name: Tammaru, Toomas
name: Wahlberg, Niklas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Lepidoptera
Geometridae

description: Geometrinae Stephens, 1829 The monophyly of Geometrinae is strongly supported, but the number of tribes included in this subfamily is still unclear. <i>Sihvonen et al. (2011)</i> analyzed 27 species assigned to 11 tribes, followed by <i>Ban et al. (2018)</i> with 116 species in 12 tribes. <i>Ban et al. (2018)</i> synonymized nine tribes, and validated the monophyly of 12 tribes, with two new tribes Ornithospilini and Agathiini being the first two clades branching off the main lineage of Geometrinae. Our study (168 species) validates the monophyly of 13 tribes, eleven of which were defined in previous studies: Hemitheini, Dysphaniini, Pseudoterpnini <i>s.str.</i>, Ornithospilini, Agathiini, Aracimini, Neohipparchini, Timandromorphini, Geometrini, Comibaeini, Nemoriini. One synonymization is proposed: Synchlorini Ferguson, 1969 <b>syn. nov.</b> is synonymized with Nemoriini Gumppenberg, 1887. One tribe is proposed as new: Chlorodontoperini <b>trib. nov.</b>, and one tribe (Archaeobalbini Viidalepp, 1981, <b>stat. rev.</b>) is raised from synonymy with Pseudoterpnini. <i>Ban et al. (2018)</i> found that <i>Ornithospila</i> Warren, 1894 is sister to the rest of Geometrinae, and <i>Agathia</i> Guenée, 1858 is sister to the rest of Geometrinae minus <i>Ornithospila</i>. Although weakly supported, our results (with more species of <i>Agathia</i> sampled) placed Ornisthospilini+Agathiini together and these tribes are the sister to the rest of Geometrinae. <i>Chlorodontopera</i> is placed as an isolated lineage as shown by <i>Ban et al. (2018)</i>. Given that <i>Chlorodontopera</i> clearly forms an independent and well-supported lineage we propose the description of a new tribe Chlorodontoperini.
description: Published as part of <i>Murillo-Ramos, Leidys, Brehm, Gunnar, Sihvonen, Pasi, Hausmann, Axel, Holm, Sille, Ghanavi, Hamid Reza, Õunap, Erki, Truuverk, Andro, Staude, Hermann, Friedrich, Egbert, Tammaru, Toomas &amp; Wahlberg, Niklas, 2019, A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies, pp. 1-39 in PeerJ 7</i> on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7386, http://zenodo.org/record/5767530
description: {"references": ["Sihvonen P, Mutanen M, Kaila L, Brehm G, Hausmann A, Staude HS. 2011. Comprehensive molecular sampling yields a robust phylogeny for geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). PLOS ONE 6 (6): e 20356 DOI 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0020356.", "Ban X, Jiang N, Cheng R, Xue D, Han H. 2018. Tribal classification and phylogeny of Geometrinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) inferred from seven gene regions. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 (3): 653 - 672 DOI 10.1093 / zoolinnean / zly 013.", "Guenee A. 1858. Histoire naturelle des insectes (Lepidoptera), Species General des Lepidopteres. Tom IX. X. Uranides et Phalenites I. II. Paris: Roret, 304."]}