Aterpnodes

Aterpnodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Subfamily:	Ennominae
Genus:	Aterpnodes

Last updated September 11, 2025

Aterpnodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. The genus previously included Syrrhizodes species S. rubripennis, but it is currently a monotypic taxon consisting solely of Aterpnodes geminipuncta.^[1]

A. geminipuncta was discovered in and remains endemic to Costa Rica.^[1] Its overall anatomy superficially resembles that of Parilexia , but distinct differences in wing, genital, and antennae structure suggest that their genera are independent of one another.^[2]

References

1 2 Pitkin, Linda M. (June 2002). "Neotropical ennomine moths: a review of the genera (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 135 (2–3): 121–401. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00012.x. ISSN 1096-3642.
↑ Ferguson, Douglas C. (June 2009). "A revision of the red-brown caberine geometrids of the southeastern United States (Geometridae: Caberini)". Tropical Lepidoptera Research. 19 (1).

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[:0-1] 1 2 Pitkin, Linda M. (June 2002). "Neotropical ennomine moths: a review of the genera (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 135 (2–3): 121–401. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00012.x. ISSN 1096-3642.

[2] Ferguson, Douglas C. (June 2009). "A revision of the red-brown caberine geometrids of the southeastern United States (Geometridae: Caberini)". Tropical Lepidoptera Research. 19 (1).

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