Drepanogynis
Drepanogynis | |
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Drepanogynis bifasciata | |
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Family: | Geometridae
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Genus: | Drepanogynis Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1857
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Type species | |
Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1857
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Diversity | |
Over 150 species | |
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Apleroneura Warren, 1898 |
Drepanogynis is a genus in the geometer moth family (Geometridae). Long considered to hold about 5 dozen species, this number has been doubled after the last major revision. They are stout-bodied and hairy by geometer moth standards, usually have pale hindwings and rest with their wings angled upwards like a roof, as Nacophorini do. The genus is by and large restricted to Africa south of the Equator, with most species occurring in southern Africa.[1]
This genus belongs to the subfamily Ennominae. Therein, its relationships are not quite clear, but they may indeed belong into the tribe Nacophorini. These they resemble in general appearance as mentioned above, as well as having an with lateral processes, a simple rodlike uncus, a strong gnathos, simple valvae and an aedeagus with separate cornuti. Closely related genera seem to be Argyrophora, Hebdomophruda, Microligia and Pseudomaenas.[2]
Selected species[]
Species of Drepanogynis include:[3][4]
- Drepanogynis bifasciata (Dewitz, 1881)
- (Warren, 1894)
- Drepanogynis curvaria (Dewitz, 1881)
- (Warren, 1898)
- Viette, 1970
- Prout, 1938
- Drepanogynis hypopyrrha (Prout, 1932)
- Prout, 1915
- Viette, 1974
- Krüger, 2005
- Guenée, 1857
- Krüger, 2005
- Viette, 1977
- Viette, 1974
- Drepanogynis protactosema Prout, 1932
- Krüger, 2005
- Krüger, 2002
- (Prout, 1938)
- Krüger, 2002
- (Prout, 1934)
- Viette, 1972
- Herbulot, 1957
- (Prout, 1922)
- (Warren, 1898)
- Viette, 1980
- (Warren, 1897)
- (Warren, 1914)
- Prout, 1922
- Krüger, 2002
- (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
- Krüger, 2002
- Krüger, 2002
- Krüger, 2002
- Krüger, 2002
Footnotes[]
References[]
- Krüger, M. (2005): New species of geometrid moths from Lesotho (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 42: 19-45. HTML abstract
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004a): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Apleroneura. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004b): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Drepanogynis. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004c): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Phrudochorda. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
- Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Drepanogynis. Version of 2009-JUL-17. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
- Young, Catherine J. (2008): Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini using adult morphology, and phylogeny of the Geometridae based on morphological characters. Zootaxa 1736: 1-141. PDF abstract and excerpt
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