Larentiinae Duponchel 1845
Creators: name: Pohl, Greg
name: Anweiler, Gary
name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Kondla, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae

description: <i>55.1. Larentiinae – carpet moths</i> Medium-sized moths (approximately 15–35 mm wingspan) with complex patterns of transverse bands. Th ey can be separated from other geometrids by wing venation: on the hindwing, the Sc + R 1 veins are fused with the Rs vein for more than one-quarter the length of the discal cell. No other easily observable characters define the group. Larvae of most species feed on the foliage of trees; a few species of <i>Eupithecia</i> in Hawaii are carnivorous on aphids and spiders. Th e Larentiinae includes a few forest pest species such as the winter moths (<i>Operophtera</i> spp.). Approximately 5700 species of Larentiinae are known worldwide, primarily from temperate regions. Approximately 470 species occur in North America; 137 are known from AB. Th is subfamily is in need of taxonomic work, and many specimens in collections have not been adequately identified because of the diffi culty in making species determinations. Some groups are reasonably well known, including <i>Anticlea</i> (Rindge 1967), some <i>Dysstroma</i> (McDunnough 1946a), <i>Entephria</i> (Troubridge 1997), <i>Eubaphe</i> (Fletcher 1954), Canadian <i>Eupithecia</i> (Bolte 1990), some <i>Hydriomena</i> (McDunnough 1954), <i>Operophtera</i> (Troubridge and Fitzpatrick 1993), <i>Plemyria</i> (Choi 1998), and <i>Rheumaptera</i> (Skou 1986). McGuffi n (1958b) treated the known larvae.
description: Published as part of <i>Pohl, Greg, Anweiler, Gary, Schmidt, Christian &amp; Kondla, Norbert, 2010, An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada, pp. 1-549 in ZooKeys 38 (38)</i> on page 195, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.38.383, http://zenodo.org/record/576629
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