Somatina

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

Somatina
Somatina cf. plynusaria
Scientific classification
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]

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
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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 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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