| Pseudoterpnini | |
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| Jersey emerald (Pseudoterpna coronillaria) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Subfamily: | Geometrinae |
| Tribe: | Pseudoterpnini Warren, 1893 |
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The Pseudoterpnini are a tribe of geometer moths in the subfamily Geometrinae. The tribe was described by Warren in 1893. It was alternatively treated as subtribe Pseudoterpniti by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1996.
Distribution
[edit]Pseudoterpnini are widely distributed in the Old World, from western Europe to the western Pacific, in temperate, subtropical and tropical regions.
Diversity
[edit]The tribe consists of over 300 species in 34 genera:
- Absala Swinhoe, 1893
- Actenochroma Warren, 1893
- Aeolochroma Prout, 1912
- Aplasta Hübner, [1823] 1816
- Austroterpna Goldfinch, 1929
- Calleremites Warren, 1894
- Crypsiphona Meyrick, 1888
- Cyneoterpna Prout, 1912 (=Autanepsia Turner, 1910)
- Dindica Moore, 1888 (=Perissolophia Warren, 1893)
- Dindicodes Prout, 1912
- Epipristis Meyrick, 1888 (=Terpnidia Butler, 1892, Pingarmia Sterneck, 1927)
- Heliomystis Meyrick, 1888
- Herochroma Swinhoe, 1893 (=Chloroclydon Warren, 1894, Archaeobalbis Prout, 1912, Neobalbis Prout, 1912)
- Holoterpna Püngeler, 1900
- Hypobapta Prout, 1912 (=Hypochroma Guenée, [1858])
- Hypodoxa Prout, 1912
- Limbatochlamys Rothschild, 1894
- Lophophelma Prout, 1912
- Lophothorax Turner, 1939
- Metallolophia Warren, 1895
- Metaterpna Yazaki, 1992
- Mictoschema Prout, 1922
- Mimandria Warren, 1895
- Orthorisma Prout, 1912 (=Orthocraspeda Prout, 1912)
- Pachista Prout, 1912
- Pachyodes Guenée, [1858] (=Archaeopseustes Warren, 1894)
- Paraterpna Goldfinch, 1929
- Pingasa Moore, [1887] (=Skorpisthes Lucas, 1900)
- Protophyta Turner, 1910
- Pseudoterpna Hübner, [1823]
- Psilotagma Warren, 1894
- Pullichroma Holloway, 1996
- Rhuma Walker, 1860 (=Sterictopsis Warren, 1898, Oxyphanes Turner, 1936)
- Sundadoxa Holloway, 1996
References
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Data related to Pseudoterpnini at Wikispecies- Hausmann, A.; Sommerer, M.; Rougerie, R. & Hebert, P. (2009). "Hypobapta tachyhalotaria spec. nov. from Tasmania- an example of a new species revealed by DNA barcoding (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)". Spixiana. 32 (2): 161–166.
- Herbulot, C. (1999). "New Geometridae from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)". Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie. 16 (2): 147–153.
- Herbulot, C. (1999). "Nouveaux Géométrides de Madagascar (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)". Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie. 16 (4): 303–309.
- Pitkin, Linda M.; Han, Hongxiang; James, Shayleen (June 11, 2007). "Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150 (2): 334–412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012.
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