Tribe Geometrini Stephens, 1829

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• Geometrini Stephens, J.F. 1829. The Nomenclature of British Insects; together with their synonyms: being a compendious list of such species as are contained in the systematic catalogue of British insects, and of those discovered subsequently to its publication; forming a guide to their classification, etc. London : Baldwin & Craddock 68 pp.
• Neohipparchini Inoue, H. 1961. Lepidoptera: Geometridae. Insecta Japonica 1 4.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [193]

Introduction

Previously in the AFD, because of the uncertainty of classification of the Australian fauna in the Geometrinae, most taxa were loosely classified under the tribe Geometrini only, except that the largely endemic stout-bodied 'grey' taxa were treated under the sub-tribe Pseudoterpniti. Recent studies have clarified the tribal classificaiton of many Australian taxa. However taxa that were not included in those studies have been left in the Geometrini, and the Pseudoterpniti largly elevated to the Pseudoterpnini (see discussion in Pseudoterpnini). Further work is needed to elucidate the Australian Geometrini as they now stand.

Geometrini were erected as a tribe by Stephensin 1829 based abound the type genus for the Geometridae, the large, mainly European genus Geometra.

General References

Ban, X., Jiang, N., Cheng, R., Xue, D. & Han, H. 2018. Tribal classification and phylogeny of Geometrinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) inferred from seven gene regions. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184: 653-672 [Date published 15 May 2018]

Murillo-Ramos L, Brehm G, Sihvonen P, Hausmann A, Holm S, Reza Ghanavi H, Õunap E, Truuverk A, Staude H, Friedrich E, Tammaru T, Wahlberg N. 2019. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies. PeerJ [Date published 27 August 2019]

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