Geometra

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Geometroidea

Familia: Geometridae
Subfamilia: Geometrinae
Tribus: Geometrini
Genus: Geometra
Species: G. albociliaria – G. albovenaria – G. burmensis – G. dieckmanni – G. euryagyia – G. flavifrontaria – G. fragilis – G. glaucaria – G. latuta – G. neovalida – G. papilionaria – G. purissima – G. rana – G. sigaria – G. sinoisaria – G. smaragdus – G. sponsaria – G. symaria – G. ussuriensis – G. valida
in synonymy

G. devecisi
Name

Geometra Linnaeus, 1758: 519

Type species: Phalaena papilionaria Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation by ICZN, 1957.

Synonyms

Hipparchus Leach, 1815, in Brewster, Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopædia 9: 134. TS: Phalaena papilionaria Linnaeus 1758, by subsequent designation by Curtis, 1830.
Holothalassis Hübner, 1823, Verz. bekannter Schmett.: 285. TS: Phalaena papilionaria Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy.
Hydrochroa Gumppenberg, 1887, Nova Acta Acad. Caesar Leop. Carol. 49: 328 (key). TS: Geometra glaucaria Ménétriès 1858, by subsequent monotypy. TL: [Russia]: mouth of Ussuri River.
Leptornis Billberg, 1820, Enumeratio Insect. Mus. G.J. Billberg: 90. TS: Phalaena papilionaria Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Prout, 1908.
Loxochila Butler, 1881, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881: 615. TS: Tanaorhinus smaragdus Butler, 1880, by original designation. TL: Northeast Himalayas.
Megalochlora Meyrick, 1892, Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1892: 93 (key), 95. TS: Chlorochroma sponsaria Bremer, 1864, by subsequent designation by Fletcher, 1979. TL: Russia, East Siberia, Bureja Mountains, Ema estuary.
Terpne Hübner, 1822, Syst-alphab. Verz.: 38–41, 44, 47, 48, 51, 52. TS: Phalaena papilionaria Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Grote, 1902.

References

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542: 519. Reference page.
Han, H.X., Galsworthy, A.C. & Xue, D.Y. 2009: A survey of the genus Geometra Linnaeus (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Geometrinae) Journal of Natural History 43(13-14): 885-922. DOI: 10.1080/00222930802702472 Reference page.
Pitkin, L.M. 1993. Neotropical emerald moths of the genera Nemoria, Lissochlora and Chavarriella, with particular reference to the species of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. Entomology series 62(2): 39–159. BHL Reference page.
Wiltshire, E.P. 1966. Österreichische entomologische Iran-Afghanistan-Expeditionen. Beiträge zur Lepidopterenfauna. 6. Subfamilien Alsophilinae und Geometrinae (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Middle East Lepidoptera XXI. Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 51: 27–32. Full article zobodat (PDF). Reference page.

Geometra is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.
Species in Europe

Geometra papilionaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database