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Scopulini

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Scopulini
Scopula imitaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Sterrhinae
Tribe: Scopulini
Duponchel, 1845
Synonyms
  • Aletinae Hampson, 1918
  • Aletini
  • Problepsini Wiltshire, 1990

Scopulini is a tribe of the geometer moth family (Geometridae), with about 900 species in seven genera. The tribe was described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1845.

Systematics

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Scopulini as a family name is an old synonym of the subfamily Sterrhinae (Meyrick, 1892). The tribe Scopulini is divided into seven genera, of which only Scopula and Problepsis have species in Europe.

  • Scopulini Duponchel, 1845
    • Dithalama Meyrick, 1888 (4 species in Australia and Tasmania)
    • Isoplenodia Prout, 1932 (4 species in Africa)
    • Lipomelia Warren, 1893 (1 species from India to Taiwan)
    • Somatina Guenée, 1858 (44 species in Africa, East Asia and Australia)
    • Zythos D. S. Fletcher, 1979 (11 species from Indonesia up to Papua-New Guinea)
    • Problepsis Lederer, 1853 (51 species in the Palearctic, Africa, South-East Asia to Australia)
    • Scopula Schrank, 1802 (including Glossotrophia Prout, 1913 and Holarctias Prout, 1913) (over 800 species)

Phylogenetics

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The phylogenetics of Scopulini was described in detail in 2005 by Pasi Sihvonen.

 Sterrhinae 

 Outgroup (Idaea)

   Scopulini 

Literature

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  • Hausmann, Axel The Geometrid Moths of Europe, 2. Sterrhinae. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 2004, ISBN 87-88757-37-4
  • Abraham, D.; Ryrholm, N.; Wittzell, H.; Holloway, J. D.; Scoble, M. J.; Lofstedt, C.: "Molecular phylogeny of the subfamilies in Geometridae (Geometroidea: Lepidoptera)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 20(1): 65-77 (2001)
  • Sihvonen, Pasi (April 1, 2005). "Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 473–530. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x.
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