Biology:Somatina

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Short description: Genus of moths

Somatina
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Somatina cf. plynusaria
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Somatina
Guenée, [1858][1]
Synonyms
  • Nebessa Walker, 1869
  • Somatinopsis Warren, 1896
  • Somatodes Guenée, [1858]

Somatina is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1858.

Description

The genus is similar to Problepsis, but differs in that the antennae of the male usually being ciliated. Forewings with vein 10 arising from veins 7, 8 and 9 anastomosing (fusing) with vein 11, and then with veins 8 and 9 to form a double areole.[2]

Species

References

  1. Sihvonen, Pasi (April 1, 2005). "Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143 (4): 473–530. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x. 
  2. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180173#page/3/mode/1up. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7559247 entry