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      Review of recent taxonomic changes to the emerald moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae)

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      Journal: Biodiversity Data Journal
      Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
      Keywords: Classification, Geometridae , Geometrinae

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          The subfamily Geometrinae ( Lepidoptera : Geometridae ), commonly known as emerald moths, is an ecologically diverse group of moths with over 2,500 described species. Many taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of Geometrinae have been undertaken in the past decade, resulting in hundreds of new taxonomic changes since online publication of the most recent checklist in December 2007.

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          This review synthesises the last 12 years of alpha -taxonomic research in Geometrinae . A comprehensive list of Geometrinae genus- and species-group descriptions, synonymies, combinations and other taxonomic changes, made since 2007, is provided. Since 2007, the known species richness of Geometrinae has increased from 2,529 to 2,642 species; an updated list of all these species is presented in a supplementary spreadsheet.

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          A diet-induced developmental polymorphism in a caterpillar.

          Lois Greene (1989)
          Caterpillars of the spring brood of Nemoria arizonaria develop into mimics of the oak catkins upon which they feed. Caterpillars from the summer brood emerge after the catkins have fallen and they develop instead into mimics of oak twigs. This developmental polymorphism may be triggered by the concentration of defensive secondary compounds in the larval diet: all caterpillars raised on catkins, which are low in tannin, developed into catkin morphs; those raised on leaves, which are high in tannin, developed into twig morphs; most raised on artificial diets of catkins with elevated tannin concentrations developed into twig morphs.
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            A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies

            Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Gunnar Brehm, Pasi Sihvonen … (2019)
            Our study aims to investigate the relationships of the major lineages within the moth family Geometridae, with a focus on the poorly studied Oenochrominae-Desmobathrinae complex, and to translate some of the results into a coherent subfamilial and tribal level classification for the family. We analyzed a molecular dataset of 1,206 Geometroidea terminal taxa from all biogeographical regions comprising up to 11 molecular markers that includes one mitochondrial (COI) and 10 protein-coding nuclear gene regions (wingless, ArgK, MDH, RpS5, GAPDH, IDH, Ca-ATPase, Nex9, EF-1alpha, CAD). The molecular data set was analyzed using maximum likelihood as implemented in IQ-TREE and RAxML. We found high support for the subfamilies Larentiinae, Geometrinae and Ennominae in their traditional scopes. Sterrhinae becomes monophyletic only if Ergavia Walker, Ametris Hübner and Macrotes Westwood, which are currently placed in Oenochrominae, are formally transferred to Sterrhinae. Desmobathrinae and Oenochrominae are found to be polyphyletic. The concepts of Oenochrominae and Desmobathrinae required major revision and, after appropriate rearrangements, these groups also form monophyletic subfamily-level entities. Oenochrominae s.str. as originally conceived by Guenée is phylogenetically distant from Epidesmia and its close relatives. The latter is hereby described as the subfamily Epidesmiinae Murillo-Ramos, Sihvonen & Brehm, subfam. nov. Epidesmiinae are a lineage of “slender-bodied Oenochrominae” that include the genera Ecphyas Turner, Systatica Turner, Adeixis Warren, Dichromodes Guenée, Phrixocomes Turner, Abraxaphantes Warren, Epidesmia Duncan & Westwood and Phrataria Walker. Archiearinae are monophyletic when Dirce and Acalyphes are formally transferred to Ennominae. We also found that many tribes were para- or polyphyletic and therefore propose tens of taxonomic changes at the tribe and subfamily levels. Archaeobalbini stat. rev. Viidalepp (Geometrinae) is raised from synonymy with Pseudoterpnini Warren to tribal rank. Chlorodontoperini Murillo-Ramos, Sihvonen & Brehm, trib. nov. and Drepanogynini Murillo-Ramos, Sihvonen & Brehm, trib. nov. are described as new tribes in Geometrinae and Ennominae, respectively.
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              A global checklist of the Bombycoidea ( Insecta : Lepidoptera )

              Ian J. Kitching, Rodolphe Rougerie, Andreas Zwick … (2018)
              Abstract Background Bombycoidea is an ecologically diverse and speciose superfamily of Lepidoptera . The superfamily includes many model organisms, but the taxonomy and classification of the superfamily has remained largely in disarray. Here we present a global checklist of Bombycoidea . Following Zwick (2008) and Zwick et al. (2011), ten families are recognized: Anthelidae , Apatelodidae , Bombycidae , Brahmaeidae , Carthaeidae , Endromidae , Eupterotidae , Phiditiidae , Saturniidae and Sphingidae . The former families Lemoniidae and Mirinidae are included within Brahmaeidae and Endromidae respectively. The former bombycid subfamilies Oberthueriinae and Prismostictinae are also treated as synonyms of Endromidae , and the former bombycine subfamilies Apatelodinae and Phitditiinae are treated as families. New information This checklist represents the first effort to synthesize the current taxonomic treatment of the entire superfamily. It includes 12,159 names and references to their authors, and it accounts for the recent burst in species and subspecies descriptions within family Saturniidae (ca. 1,500 within the past 10 years) and to a lesser extent in Sphingidae (ca. 250 species over the same period). The changes to the higher classification of Saturniidae proposed by Nässig et al. (2015) are rejected as premature and unnecessary. The new tribes, subtribes and genera described by Cooper (2002) are here treated as junior synonyms. We also present a new higher classification of Sphingidae , based on Kawahara et al. (2009), Barber and Kawahara (2013) and a more recent phylogenomic study by Breinholt et al. (2017), as well as a reviewed genus and species level classification, as documented by Kitching (2018).
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                David Plotkin:
                ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2339-655X
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Biodivers Data J
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Biodivers Data J
                Journal ID (publisher-id): 1
                Journal ID (index): urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:F9B2E808-C883-5F47-B276-6D62129E4FF4
                Journal ID (aggregator): urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:245B00E9-BFE5-4B4F-B76E-15C30BA74C02
                Title: Biodiversity Data Journal
                Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
                ISSN (Print): 1314-2836
                ISSN (Electronic): 1314-2828
                Publication date Collection: 2020
                Publication date (Electronic): 30 April 2020
                Volume: 8
                Electronic Location Identifier: e52190
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States of America Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida Gainesville United States of America
                [2 ] Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, United States of America Florida Museum of Natural History Gainesville United States of America
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: David Plotkin ( dplotkin@ 123456ufl.edu ).

                Academic editor: Shinichi Nakahara

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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2339-655X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3724-4610
                Article
                Publisher ID: 52190 Publisher-manuscript ID: 13405
                DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e52190
                PMC ID: 7205841
                SO-VID: a00398bf-f489-4f86-af72-6acd9de1fabb
                Copyright © David Plotkin, Akito Y. Kawahara
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                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                Date received : 18 March 2020
                Date accepted : 14 April 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, References: 72
                Categories
                Subject: Taxonomic Paper
                Subject: Insecta
                Subject: Lepidoptera
                Subject: Geometridae
                Subject: Nomenclature
                Subject: Catalogues and Checklists
                Subject: Taxonomy

                Keywords: classification, geometridae , geometrinae
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                Keywords: classification, geometridae , geometrinae

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