''Erannis'' is a
geometer moth genus of the
subfamily
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Ennominae erected by
Jacob Hübner
Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of ''Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge'' (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology.
Scientific career
Hübner was the author of '' ...
in 1825. It is placed by some
entomologist
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s in the
tribe Erannini as the
type
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genus, but others merge this group into the tribe
Boarmiini
The Boarmiini (also often called ''Cleorini'') are a large tribe of geometer moths in the Ennominae subfamily.
Description and systematics
This family is sometimes massively expanded, with the closely related Bistonini, Bupalini, Erannini, Gno ...
or
Bistonini.
The adults of these smallish moths typically live in the crowns of their host trees. The genus is most diverse in the
Holarctic; few of the twelve or so known
species occur in adjacent regions.
Selected species
''Erannis''
species include:
* ''
Erannis ankeraria
''Erannis'' is a geometer moth genus of the subfamily Ennominae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It is placed by some entomologists in the tribe Erannini as the type genus, but others merge this group into the tribe Boarmiini or Bistonini.
Th ...
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(Staudinger, 1861)
* ''
Erannis caspica
''Erannis'' is a geometer moth genus of the subfamily Ennominae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It is placed by some entomologists in the tribe Erannini as the type genus, but others merge this group into the tribe Boarmiini or Bistonini.
Th ...
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László, 2003
* ''
Erannis declinans
''Erannis'' is a geometer moth genus of the subfamily Ennominae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It is placed by some entomologists in the tribe Erannini as the type genus, but others merge this group into the tribe Boarmiini or Bistonini.
Th ...
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(Staudinger, 1879)
* ''
Erannis defoliaria
The mottled umber (''Erannis defoliaria'') is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is common throughout much of the Palearctic region. The species was first described by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759.
Distribution
The species can be found in w ...
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(Clerck, 1759) – mottled umber
* ''
Erannis golda
''Erannis'' is a geometer moth genus of the subfamily Ennominae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It is placed by some entomologists in the tribe Erannini as the type genus, but others merge this group into the tribe Boarmiini or Bistonini.
Th ...
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Djakonov, 1929
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Erannis jacobsoni
''Erannis jacobsoni'', or Jacobson's spanworm, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Alexander Michailovitsch Djakonov in 1926. It is found in Europe (Russia: eastern Siberia, the Russian Far East and western Sib ...
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Djakonov, 1926
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Erannis kashmirensis
''Erannis'' is a geometer moth genus of the subfamily Ennominae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It is placed by some entomologists in the tribe Erannini as the type genus, but others merge this group into the tribe Boarmiini or Bistonini.
Th ...
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László, 2003
* ''
Erannis potopolskii
''Erannis'' is a geometer moth genus of the subfamily Ennominae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It is placed by some entomologists in the tribe (biology), tribe Erannini as the type (biology), type genus, but others merge this group into the tr ...
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Viidalepp, 1988
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Erannis tiliaria
''Erannis tiliaria'', the linden looper, also known under the rather ambiguous name "winter moth", is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841. It is found in North America from central ...
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(Harris, 1841) – linden looper, winter moth
* ''
Erannis vancouverensis
''Erannis vancouverensis'' is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae
The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives fr ...
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Hulst, 1896 (sometimes in ''E. tiliaria'')
Synonyms
The genus has also been listed under the following now-obsolete alternate names:
[Pitkin & Jenkins (2004)]
* ''Chimadia''
Speyer, 1839
* ''Erranis''
('' lapsus'')
* ''Hibernia''
(''lapsus'')
* ''Hyberna''
(''lapsus'')
* ''Hybernia''
Berthold, 1827
* ''Lampetia''
Stephens, 1827
* ''
Thriptera''
Gistel, 1848 (''non'' Solier, 1836: preoccupied
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)
Footnotes
References
* (2003): New species of the genus ''Erannis'' Hübner,
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Events
By place
India
* A group of Persio-Assyrian adherents of the Church of the East, under the leader ...
1816 from the North-West Himalaya and Iran (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). ''Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae'' 49 (2): 153-158
PDF fulltext* (2004)
Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species&ndash
''Erannis'' Version of November 5, 2004. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
* (2001): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms &ndash
Version of December 9, 2001. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
Bistonini
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
{{Bistonini-stub