The Pseudoterpnini are a tribe of geometer moths in the subfamily Geometrinae. The tribe was described by Warren in 1893. It was alternatively treated as subtribe Pseudoterpniti by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1996.
Distribution Pseudoterpnini are widely distributed in the Old World, from western Europe to the western Pacific, in temperate, subtropical and tropical regions.
Diversity The tribe consists of over 300 species in 34 genera:
Absala Swinhoe, 1893 Actenochroma Warren, 1893 Aeolochroma Prout, 1912 Aplasta Hübner, 1816 Austroterpna Goldfinch, 1929 Calleremites Warren, 1894 Crypsiphona Meyrick, 1888 Cyneoterpna Prout, 1912 (=Autanepsia Turner, 1910) Dindica Moore, 1888 (=Perissolophia Warren, 1893) Dindicodes Prout, 1912 Epipristis Meyrick, 1888 (=Terpnidia Butler, 1892, Pingarmia Sterneck, 1927) Heliomystis Meyrick, 1888 Herochroma Swinhoe, 1893 (=Chloroclydon Warren, 1894, Archaeobalbis Prout, 1912, Neobalbis Prout, 1912) Holoterpna Püngeler, 1900 Hypobapta Prout, 1912 (=Hypochroma Guenée, ) Hypodoxa Prout, 1912 Limbatochlamys Rothschild, 1894 Lophophelma Prout, 1912 Lophothorax Turner, 1939 Metallolophia Warren, 1895 Metaterpna Yazaki, 1992 Mictoschema Prout, 1922 Mimandria Warren, 1895 Orthorisma Prout, 1912 (=Orthocraspeda Prout, 1912) Pachista Prout, 1912 Pachyodes Guenée, (=Archaeopseustes Warren, 1894) Paraterpna Goldfinch, 1929 Pingasa Moore, (=Skorpisthes Lucas, 1900) Protophyta Turner, 1910 Pseudoterpna Hübner, Psilotagma Warren, 1894 Pullichroma Holloway, 1996 Rhuma Walker, 1860 (=Sterictopsis Warren, 1898, Oxyphanes Turner, 1936) Sundadoxa Holloway, 1996
References
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