Bistonini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Geometroidea

Familia: Geometridae
Subfamilia: Ennominae
Tribus: Bistonini
Genera: Agriopis – Amorphogynia – Apocheima – Biston – Chemerina – Chondrosoma – Larerannis – Lycia – Megabiston – Microbiston – Pachyerannis – Phigalia
Name

Bistonini Stephens, 1850 (Bistonidi)
References

Sato, R., 1996: Records of the Boarmiini (Geometridae; Ennominae) from Thailand III. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 47(4): 223–236. Abstract and full article: [1].

Links

Zicha, Ondřej et al. Bistonini – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).

The Bistonini are a tribe of geometer moths in subfamily Ennominae. As numerous ennomine genera have not yet been assigned to a tribe,[2] the genus list is preliminary. In addition, the entire tribe is sometimes[3] merged into a much-expanded Boarmiini. In other treatments,[4] the Erannini are included in the present group.

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.[5]
Selected 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

Forum Herbulot (2008)
See references in Savela (2010)
Following Holloway (1994)
See e.g. references in Savela (2010)

Young (2008)

References

Forum Herbulot (2008): Family group names in Geometridae. Retrieved July 22, 2008.
Holloway, J.D. (1994): The Moths of Borneo: Family Geometridae, Subfamily Ennominae. London.
Savela, Markku (2008): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Ennominae. Version of June 24, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
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