Cidariini

Cidariini
Blue-bordered Carpet (Plemyria rubiginata) Photo from entomart.be
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
(unranked):	Macrolepidoptera
Superfamily:	Geometroidea
Family:	Geometridae
Subfamily:	Larentiinae
Tribe:	Cidariini Duponchel, 1845
Genera
About 35; see text
Synonyms
Cidarites Duponchel, 1845 Therinae Pierce, 1914 Therini Pierce, 1914

The Cidariini are the largest tribe of geometer moths in the subfamily Larentiinae (possibly a distinct family). The Cidariini include many of the species known as "carpets" or, ambiguously, "carpet moths" (most other "carpets" are in the Xanthorhoini), and are among the few geometer moths that have been subject to fairly comprehensive cladistic study of their phylogeny.

Genera

As several larentiine genera have not yet been assigned to a tribe, the genus list is still preliminary; for example the genus Almeria may well belong in the Cidariini. Several well-known species are also listed:

• Antepirrhoe
• Callabraxas
• Calostigiodes
• Chloroclysta
  • Red-green Carpet, Chloroclysta siterata
  • Common Marbled Carpet, Chloroclysta truncata (sometimes in Dysstroma)
• Cidaria
  • Barred Yellow, Cidaria fulvata
• Colostygia
  • Green Carpet, Colostygia pectinataria
• Cosmorhoe
  • Purple Bar, Cosmorhoe ocellata
• Costicoma
• Diathera
• Dysstroma
• Ecliptopera
  • Ecliptopera capitata
  • Small Phoenix, Ecliptopera silaceata
• Electrophaes
• Eulithis
  • The Spinach, Eulithis mellinata
  • Northern Spinach, Eulithis populata
  • The Phoenix, Eulithis prunata
  • Barred Straw, Eulithis pyraliata (sometimes in Gandaritis)

• Eustroma
• Evecliptopera
• Fascilunaria
• Gandaritis
• Heterothera
• Hysterura
• Lampropteryx
• Lobogonodes
• Nebula
• Paradysstroma
• Pennithera
• Plemyria
  • Blue-bordered Carpet, Plemyria rubiginata
• Pljushtchia
• Polythrena
• Praethera
• Pseudodysstroma
• Sibatania
• Thera
• Trichobaptria
• Trichodezia
• Xenortholitha

References

• Forum Herbulot (2008): Family group names in Geometridae. Retrieved 2008-JUL-22.
• Savela, Markku (2007): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Larentiinae. Version of 2007-DEC-08. Retrieved 2008-JUL-21.
• Young, Catherine J. (2008): Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini using adult morphology, and phylogeny of the Geometridae based on morphological characters. Zootaxa 1736: 1-141. PDF abstract and excerpt
• Viidalepp J.* & Kostjuk I. (2005): Pljushtchia prima, new moth genus and species from Tadjikistan (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). abstract