Genus Agathia Guenée, 1857 [1858]

Museums

Regional Maps

• Agathia Guenée, A. 1857. Uranides et Phalénites. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 9 xxxvii, 514 pp. [388].

  Type species:

   Geometra Lycaenaria Kollar, 1844 by original designation, see Kollar, V. in Kollar, V. & Redtenbacher, L. 1844. (Part 2) Aufzählung und Beschreibung der von Freiherrn Carl v. Hügel auf seiner Reise durch Kaschmir und das Himaleyagebirge gesammelten Insecten. pp. 393-564 in von Hügel, C. (ed.). Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek. Stuttgart : von Hügel Vol. 4.
• Hypagathia Inoue, H. 1961. Lepidoptera: Geometridae. Insecta Japonica 1 4 [32, English summary p. 90].

  Type species:

   Agathia carissima Butler, 1878 by original designation.

Introduction

This Old World genus is difficult to place within exisiting tribes on genitalia morpholgy and its distinctive wing facies (Holloway 1996). However affinities to the Nemoriini was suggested by Stekolnikov & Kuznetsov (1981).

General References

Holloway, J.D. 1996. The Moths of Borneo : family Geometridae, subfamilies : Oenochrominae, Desmobathrinae, Geometrinae, Orthostixinae. Malayan Nature Journal 49: 147-326 [https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/index.htm]

Stekolnikov, A.A. & Kuznetsov, V.1. 1981. Functional morphology of the male genitalia and notes on the system of the subfamily Geometrinae. Entomological Review. Washington 60(3): 37-54

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