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Scopulini

Scopulini
Scopula imitaria01.jpg
Scopula imitaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked): Macrolepidoptera
Superfamily: Geometroidea
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Sterrhinae
Tribe: Scopulini
Duponchel, 1845
Genus

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Synonyms
  • Aletinae Hampson, 1918
  • Aletini
  • Problepsini Wiltshire, 1990

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Scopulini is a tribe of the geometer moth family (Geometridae), with about 900 species in seven genera.

Scopulini as a family name is an old synonym of the subfamily Sterrhinae (Meyrick, 1892). The Tribe Scopulini is divided into seven genera, of which only Scopula and Problepsis have species in Europe.

The Phylogenetics of Scopulini was described in detail in 2005 by Pasi Sihvonen.

 Outgroup (Idaea)

 incertae sedis

 Isoplenodia

 Dithalama

 Zythos

 Somatina

 Lipomelia

 Problepsis

 incertae sedis

 Scopula



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