Description
Book SynopsisHalf of European Ennominae, a total of 141 species are covered in this volume, including difficult genera like Crocallis, Aspitates and Dyscia. Not less than 709 specimens are illustrated in 16 colour plates. For each species the following information is provided: taxonomic data, description, distribution, phenology, biology including host plants, habitat, similar species, male genitalia, including the everted vesica, female genitalia, and distribution map. Genetic data from DNA barcoding is provided for most species. 145 text-figures of diagnostic characters and other morphological structures. The taxonomic part includes new synonymies, status revisions, new combinations and numerous new distribution data. A systematic catalogue of the European species and the adjacent regions of North Africa, Macaronesia, Turkey and Middle East is included also.
Trade Review"this work very likely will be the standard largely followed in Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa for many years to come" - Luke G. Jacobs in American Entomologist, vol 61, no 3, September 2015.
Table of ContentsPreface ... 7 Abstract ... 9 Acknowledgements ... 13 Introduction ... 17 Systematic position of the Ennominae within the Geometridae ... 19 Monophyly of the Ennominae ... 20 Ennominae systematics ... 22 Classification of European Ennominae genera into tribes ... 25 Methodological notes ... 32 On species and subspecies ... 37 Abbreviations ... 39 Systematic Account ... 41 Ennominae taxa treated in volume 1 of the Geometrid Moths of Europe ... 465 Systematic checklist of the Geometridae of Europe (vol. 5) ... 467 Colour plates ... 473 Genitalia plates ... 507 Appendix 1. Data of the microscopic preparations shown in male genitalia plates ... 593 Appendix 2. Data of the microscopic preparations shown in female genitalia plates ... 617 References ... 637 Index to scientific names ... 655
