Genus Chrysocraspeda Swinhoe, 1893

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• Chrysocraspeda Swinhoe, C. 1893. New Geometres. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 12: 147-157 [157].

  Type species:

   Ephyra abhadraca Walker, 1861 by original designation.
• Chrysocraspeda Hampson, G.F. 1895. Moths III. In, Blandford, W.T. (ed.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London : Taylor and Francis xxviii+546 pp. [443] [junior homonym; junior homonym and junior objective synonym of Chrysocraspeda Swinhoe, 1893].

  Type species:

   Ephyra abhadraca Walker, 1861 by original designation.
• Heteroctenis Meyrick, E. 1897. On Lepidoptera from Malay Archipelago. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1897: 69-92 [71].

  Type species:

   Heteroctenis dracontias Meyrick, 1897 by original designation.
• Ptochophyle Warren, W. 1896. New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epilemidae, and Geometridae from Papuan region, collected by Mr. Albert S. Meek. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 272-306 [293].

  Type species:

   Ptochophyle nonata Warren, 1896 by original designation.

Introduction

The tribal placement is confirmed, based on morphology (Sihvonen et al. 2020; Holloway 2011).

General References

Holloway, J.D. 2011. The Moths of Borneo. Phaudidae, Himantopteridae, Zygaenidae. Complete checklist, checklist notes, historical appendix, index. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Southdene Sdn. Bhd. Vol. Part 2 pp.1-548. (Cited by Sihvonen et al., 2020)

Sihvonen, P., Murillo-Ramos, L., Brehm, G., Staude, H. & Wahlberg, N. 2020. Molecular phylogeny of Sterrhinae moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): towards a global classification. Systematic Entomology 45: 606–634

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