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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Alsophilini

Tribe Alsophilini

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Print References · Works Cited
Geometrid on arrowwood. Caterpillar 12. 5/24/12 - Alsophila pometaria fall cankerworm moth - Alsophila pometaria - female Alsophila pometaria - Fall Cankerworm Moth - Alsophila pometaria - male ID request, Moth 65, Ventral view - Alsophila pometaria - male Geometridae: Alsophila pometaria - Alsophila pometaria - male tiny wingless moth? - Alsophila pometaria - female Alsophila pometaria - Alsophila pometaria - male Geometer Moth Larva? - Alsophila pometaria
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Geometroidea (Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths)
Family Geometridae (Geometrid Moths)
Subfamily Ennominae
Tribe Alsophilini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Alsophilini Herbulot, 1962
Formerly a subfamily of Geometridae (Alsophilinae), now relegated to tribe status by Young (2006).
Numbers
3 species in 3 genera in our area (1).
Print References
Young, C.J. 2006. Molecular relationships of the Australian Ennominae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) and implications for the phylogeny of the Geometridae from molecular data. Zootaxa 1264: 1-147.
Works Cited
1.Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. 2016. ResearchGate.net.
Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 11 May, 2016 - 4:31pm
Last updated 7 January, 2017 - 11:13pm

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