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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 » Bistonini » Biston

Genus Biston

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Pepper and Salt Geometer - Biston betularia - male Kind of like a giant Eupithecia! - Biston sinuaria Green Caterpillare - Biston betularia Biston caterpillar? - Biston betularia Cleft-Headed Looper, 28 days after collection - Biston betularia Pepper & Salt Geometer - Hodges#6640 - Biston betularia Pepper & Salt Geometer - Biston betularia - male Cochisea recisa - Biston recisa
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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 Bistonini
Genus Biston
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Biston Leach, 1815
Cochisea Barnes & McDunnough, 1916
Explanation of Names
Generic epithet Biston from Greek mythology, Biston was the son of Ares and Calliope. (1)
Generic epithet Cochisea from Cochise County, Arizona, where the type species C. rigidaria was first collected.
The genus Cochisea is a new synonym of Biston in Schmidt & McGuinness (in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023).(2)
Numbers
1 species in North America (See the remarks section below.)
1 species in Canada (CBIF)
Range
Holarctic: represented coast-to-coast in North America and Eurasia.
Remarks
Biston multidentata has been moved to Chiricahua multidentata, a new genus in the tribe Nacophorini.
Print References
A revision of the New World Bistonini, (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) By Frederick H. Rindge of the American Museum of Natural History 156(2):, 1975 (3)
Barnes, Wm. & J.H. McDunnough 1916. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America, 3(1): 29
Rindge, F.H. 1975. A revision of the New World Bistonini, (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). American Museum of Natural History, 156(2): 89-91 (PDF)
Internet References
pinned adult images of B. betularia (CBIF)
pinned adult image of B. multidentata (Bruce Walsh, U. of Arizona) - moved to new genus, Chiricahua
Works Cited
1.An accentuated list of the British Lepidoptera, with hints on the derivation of the names.
Anonymous. 1858. The Entomological Societies of Oxford and Cambridge.
2.Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.). 2023. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
3.A revision of the New World Bistonini, (Lepidoptera, Geometridae).
Frederick H. Rindge. 1975. American Museum of Natural History 156(2):.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 June, 2005 - 9:05pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 23 May, 2024 - 9:54am

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