Perizoma

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Perizoma
Grass rivulet (Perizoma albulata) imago
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Hydriomenini
Genus: Perizoma
Hübner, 1825
Type species
Geometra albulata

Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
Diversity
Over 150 species
Synonyms
  • Emmelesia Stephens, 1829a
  • Emmelesia Stephens, 1829b (non Stephens, 1829a: preoccupied)
  • Emmelesia Stephens, 1831 (non Stephens, 1829a: preoccupied)
  • Opisogonia Herrich-Schäffer, 1856 (non Herrich-Schäffer, 1855: preoccupied)
  • Zerynthia Curtis, 1830 (non Ochsenheimer, 1816: preoccupied)
and see text
P. curvilinea in Oregon

Perizoma is a

monotypic by those who include the genera Gagitodes, Martania and Mesotype in Perizoma. Some other less closely related species formerly placed here are now elsewhere in the Larentiinae, e.g. in Entephria of the tribe Larentiini
.

Either way, there are more than 150 species of Perizoma currently known, with a generally Northern Hemisphere distribution (e.g. 14 occurring in Europe), and new ones still being described occasionally. Many of them are called rivulets ("the" rivulet is P. affinitata specifically), while others are known as carpets, a common name for Larentiinae in general.[1]

It was first described by

Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1856 – had already been used by the same author the year before for a different geometer moth genus.[3]

Selected species

Species of Perizoma include:[4][5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004b), FE (2011)
  2. ^ Tentarelli, Eric (2012). A Guide to Insects. Blackwell. p. 571.
  3. ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004ac)
  4. ^ FE (2011), and see references in Savela (2008)
  5. ^ Kandasamy, Gunathilagaraj (2016). "Checklist of Indian Geometridae with FBI number". Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.
  6. ^ "Perizoma". Insecta.pro. Retrieved 8 September 2018.

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