Review of recent taxonomic changes to the emerald moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae)
Author
Plotkin, David
Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States of America & Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, United States of America
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2339-655X
dplotkin@ufl.edu
Author
Kawahara, Akito Y.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, United States of America
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3724-4610
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2020
8
52190
52190
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e52190
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e52190
1314-2828-8-e52190
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Microloxia Warren, 1893
Microloxia aistleitneri
Hausmann, 2009 ("sp. nov.")
Microloxia chlorissoides
(Prout, 1912) ("comb. nov.")
Microloxia herbaria
(
Huebner
, 1813)
Microloxia herbaria virideciliata
(Bubacek, 1926) ("syn. nov.", followed by "stat. rev.")
Notes
One new species was described (
Hausmann 2009
).
After synonymising
Aoshakuna
and
Nipponogelasma
,
Beljaev (2007)
transferred
Nipponogelasma chlorissoides
(Prout, 1913) to
Microloxia
.
Leraut (2009)
synonymised
Microloxia herbaria virideciliata
with
M. h. herbaria
(
Huebner
, 1813).
Mueller
et al. (2019)
cited molecular and morphological evidence to justify elevating
M. h. virideciliata
back to subspecies.