Bistonini

Taxobox
name = Bistonini

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = Mating "Pachyerannis obliquaria". Large-winged male above, stub-winged female below.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Macrolepidoptera
superfamilia = Geometroidea
familia = Geometridae
subfamilia = Ennominae
tribus = Bistonini
tribus_authority = Stephens, 1850
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text
synonyms = [Forum Herbulot (2008)]
Amphidasini Duponchel, 1845
Amphidasites Duponchel, 1845
Bistonidi Stephens, 1850
Eubyjinae Warren, 1893
Eubyjini Warren, 1893
Hibernites Duponchel, 1845
Hyberniini Duponchel, 1845

The Bistonini are a tribe of geometer moths in subfamily the Ennominae. As numerous ennomine genera have not yet been assigned to a tribe [See references in Savela (2008)] , the genus list is preliminary. In addition, the entire tribe is sometimes [Following Holloway (1994)] merged into a much-expanded Boarmiini.

They overall resemble the Boarmiini, which are certainly closely related. Bistonini tend to retain more plesiomorphic traits (they are rather basal in the expanded Boarmiini) and contain many species that are very large and hairy by geometer moth standards, somewhat resembling Arctiidae. [Young (2008)]

elected genera and species

* "Agriopis"
** Spring Usher, "Agriopis leucophaearia"
** Dotted Border, "Agriopis marginaria"
* "Almabiston"
* "Amorphogynia"
* "Apocheima"
* "Biston"
* "Chondrosoma"
* "Cochisea"
* "Hypagyrtis"
* "Larerannis"
* "Lycia"
** Brindled Beauty, "Lycia hirtaria"
* "Megabiston"
* "Microbiston"
* "Nyssiodes"
* "Pachyerannis"
* "Paleacrita"
** Spring Cankerworm, "Paleacrita vernata"
* "Phigaliohybernia"
* "Protalcis"
* "Pterotocera"

Footnotes

References

* (2008): [http://www.herbulot.de/famgroup.htm Family group names in Geometridae] . Retrieved 2008-JUL-22.
* (1994): "The Moths of Borneo: Family Geometridae, Subfamily Ennominae." London.
* (2008): [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/geometroidea/geometridae/larentiinae/index.html Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Larentiinae] . Version of 2007-DEC-08. Retrieved 2008-JUL-21.
* (2008): Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini using adult morphology, and phylogeny of the Geometridae based on morphological characters. "Zootaxa" 1736: 1-141. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01736p141f.pdf PDF abstract and excerpt]