Erannis

Erannis
Male Mottled Umber (Erannis defoliaria)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Ennominae
Tribe: Erannini (disputed)
Genus: Erannis
Hübner, [1825]
Type species
Phalaena defoliaria
Clerck , 1759
Diversity
About 12 described species
Synonyms

Numerous, see text

Erannis is a geometer moth genus of the subfamily Ennominae. It is placed by some entomologists in the tribe Erannini as the type genus, but others merge this group into the tribe Boarmiini or Bistonini.

The adults of these smallish moths typically live in the crowns of their host trees. The genus is most diverse in the Holarctic; few of the 12 or so known species occur in adjacent regions.[1]

Selected species

Erannis species include:[2]

Synonyms

The genus has also beenm listed under the following now-obsolete alternate names:[3]

Footnotes

  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), László (2003)
  2. László (2003), and see references in Savela (2001)
  3. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)

References

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