Bistonini

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Bistonini
Brindled Beauty, Lycia hirtaria
Brindled Beauty, Lycia hirtaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Macrolepidoptera
Superfamily: Geometroidea
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Ennominae
Tribe: Bistonini
Genera

See text
Synonyms

Amphidasini
Erannini
Eubyjini
Hyberniini

The Bistonini are a tribe of geometer moths in the Ennominae subfamily. As numerous ennomine genera have not yet been assigned to a tribe, the genus list is preliminary. In addition, the entire tribe is sometimes[1] merged into a much-expanded Boarmiini.

[edit] Notable genera

  • Agriopis
  • Almabiston
  • Amorphogynia
  • Apocheima
  • Biston
  • Chondrosoma
  • Cochisea
  • Hypagyrtis
  • Larerannis
  • Lycia
  • Megabiston
  • Microbiston
  • Nyssiodes
  • Pachyerannis
  • Paleacrita
  • Phigaliohybernia
  • Protalcis
  • Pterotocera

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Following Holloway (1994)

[edit] References

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  • Holloway, J.D. (1994): The Moths of Borneo: Family Geometridae, Subfamily Ennominae. London.


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