Cidariini
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| Blue-bordered Carpet (Plemyria rubiginata) Photo from entomart.be | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| (unranked): | Macrolepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Geometroidea |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Subfamily: | Larentiinae |
| Tribe: | Cidariini Duponchel, 1845 |
| Genera | |
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About 35; see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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The Cidariini are the largest tribe of geometer moths in the subfamily Larentiinae (possibly a distinct family[2]). The Cidariini include many of the species known as "carpets" or, ambiguously, "carpet moths" (most other "carpets" are in the Xanthorhoini), and are among the few geometer moths that have been subject to fairly comprehensive cladistic study of their phylogeny.[2]
Genera
As several larentiine genera have not yet been assigned to a tribe, the genus list is still preliminary; for example the genus Almeria may well belong in the Cidariini.[3] Several well-known species are also listed:
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Footnotes
References
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- Forum Herbulot (2008): Family group names in Geometridae. Retrieved 2008-JUL-22.
- Savela, Markku (2007): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Larentiinae. Version of 2007-DEC-08. Retrieved 2008-JUL-21.
- Young, Catherine J. (2008): Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini using adult morphology, and phylogeny of the Geometridae based on morphological characters. Zootaxa 1736: 1-141. PDF abstract and excerpt
- Viidalepp J.* & Kostjuk I. (2005): Pljushtchia prima, new moth genus and species from Tadjikistan (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). abstract