Asthenini

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Asthenini
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Larentiinae
Tribe: Asthenini
Warren, 1893
Genera

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Synonyms
  • Astheninae

Asthenini is a tribe of geometer moths under subfamily Larentiinae first described by Warren in 1893. The tribe has been combined with Eupitheciini in the past, most notably by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in his work The Moths of Borneo. [1]

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Distribution

The tribe is represented in all the major biogeographical regions, but is most diverse in eastern Asia and is poorly represented in the Afrotropics. It is also poorly represented in the Neotropics if the genus Eois is excluded.

Diversity

227 species group taxa (species and subspecies) were included in the tribe in 2002. Later research re-included two genera, including the large genus Eois (about 250 species), more than doubling the number of species.

Recognized genera and species

Critical analysis by Dayong Xue and Malcolm J. Scoble [2] indicated 18 genera that belong to the Asthenini with 1 additional, ungrouped species. The 18 genera recognized by this research are:

Later research re-included the following genera:

Disassociated genera

The following 7 genera are sometimes associated with the Asthenini, but were excluded by the work of Xue and Scoble:

Eois and Minoa were excluded by Xue and Scoble, but later again included by Viidalepp in 2011.

Species incertae sedis

Species 'Chalyboclydon' flexilinea was identified by Xue and Scoble as being part of the Asthenini. However, it has not been associated with a specific Asthenini genus.

Related Research Articles

<i>Minoa murinata</i> Species of moth

Minoa murinata, the drab looper, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in his 1763 Entomologia Carniolica. It can be found in southern and central Europe, Great Britain, Anatolia, the Caucasus and the mountains of central Asia and Mongolia.

Leucoctenorrhoe is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae. Its only species, Leucoctenorrhoe quadrilinea, is found in Peru. Both the genus and species were described by Warren in 1904.

Palpoctenidia is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae described by Prout in 1930. Its only species, Palpoctenidia phoenicosoma, was first described by Swinhoe in 1895. It is found in China, Japan and India.

Parasthena is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae. Its only species, Parasthena flexilinea, is found on Sulawesi, in the Philippines and Borneo and possibly on Seram and Papua New Guinea. Both the genus and species were first described by Warren in 1902.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sterrhinae</span> Subfamily of moths

Sterrhinae is a large subfamily of geometer moths with some 3,000 described species, with more than half belonging to the taxonomically difficult, very diverse genera, Idaea and Scopula. This subfamily was described by Edward Meyrick in 1892. They are the most diverse in the tropics with the number of species decreasing with increasing latitude and elevation.

<i>Poecilasthena subpurpureata</i> Species of moth

Poecilasthena subpurpureata is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Francis Walker in 1863 and it is endemic to New Zealand. A synomic species, Astheniodes polycymaria, has a holotype that was recorded by George Hampson as being from India, which, as Dayong Xue and Malcolm J. Scoble point out in their paper, would be a very strange distribution pattern. Louis Beethoven Prout reasonably calls this an error in his 1926 paper.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eupitheciini</span> Tribe of moths

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"Asthena" argyrorrhytes is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1916. It is found on New Guinea.

"Asthena" subditaria is a species of Lepidoptera in the family geometrid moth. Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1906. It is found on New Guinea.

Asthena opedogramma is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1926. It is found in Myanmar and China.

Asthena tchratchraria is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Charles Oberthür in 1893. It is found in Myanmar and China.

"Asthena" aurantiaca is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1926. It is found on Western New Guinea.

"Asthena" eurychora is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1928. It is found in western Samoa.

Hydrelia bella is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Alfred Ernest Wileman in 1916. It is found in China.

Hydrelia conspicuaria is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by John Henry Leech in 1897. It is found in China.

Hydrelia elegans is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Nepal.

'Hydrelia' flavidula is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1907. It is found in Papua New Guinea.

Hydrelia parvularia is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by John Henry Leech in 1897. It is found in China.

Agnibesa pleopictaria is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Dayong Xue in 1999. It is found in India.

Venusia lilacina is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1893. It is found in China, Nepal and India.

References

  1. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Part 10 Family Geometridae, Subfamilies Sterrhinae and Larentiinae". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  2. Xue, Dayong; Scoble, Malcolm J. (June 27, 2002). "A review of the genera associated with the tribe Asthenini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae)". Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. Entomology Series. 71 (1): 77–133. doi:10.1017/S0968045402000044.