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<emphasis bold="true" box="[498,662,389,415]" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Epidesmiinae</emphasis>
Murillo-Ramos, Brehm &amp; Sihvonen
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Type genus:
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<emphasis box="[648,767,480,506]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Epidesmia</emphasis>
Duncan &amp; Westwood, 1841
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.
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Material examined: Taxa included in the molecular phylogeny:
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<emphasis box="[1278,1492,542,568]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Ecphyas holopsara</emphasis>
Turner, 1929
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis box="[667,895,582,609]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Systatica xanthastis</emphasis>
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Lower, 1894,
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<emphasis box="[1062,1244,582,608]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Adeixis griseata</emphasis>
Hudson, 1903
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,
<taxonomicName authority="Walker, 1866" authorityName="Walker" authorityYear="1866" box="[498,952,622,648]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Dichromodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="indicataria">
<emphasis box="[498,785,622,648]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Dichromodes indicataria</emphasis>
Walker, 1866
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,
<taxonomicName box="[965,1152,622,649]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Phrixocomes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis box="[965,1111,622,648]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Phrixocomes</emphasis>
sp.
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Turner, 1930,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Abraxaphantes perampla</emphasis>
Swinhoe, 1890
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,
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<emphasis box="[801,1046,662,688]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Epidesmia chilonaria</emphasis>
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
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,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Phrataria replicataria</emphasis>
Walker, 1866
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.
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Most of the slender-bodied
<taxonomicName authorityName="Guenee. Meyrick" authorityYear="1858" box="[858,1049,742,768]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Oenochrominae">Oenochrominae</taxonomicName>
, excluded from
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<emphasis box="[1438,1484,742,767]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">s.str</emphasis>
. by
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<emphasis box="[498,690,781,807]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Holloway (1996)</emphasis>
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, were recovered as an independent lineage (
<figureCitation box="[1215,1280,781,808]" captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="10.[116,181,1038,1060]" captionTargetBox="[90,1342,236,978]" captionTargetId="graphics-225@10.[90,1168,244,977]" captionText="Figure 4 Phylogenetic relationships of the subfamilies Archierinae, Desmobathrinae, Epidesmiinae subfam. nov., Oenochrominae. Numbers above branches are SH-aLRT support (%)/ultrafast bootstrap support, UFBoot2(%), for nodes to the right of the numbers. Values of SH ≥ 80 and UFBoot2 ≥ 95 indicate well-supported clades (Trifinopoulos &amp; Minh, 2018). Taxonomic changes are indicated by a symobolized arrow&gt;. *Formal taxonomic treatment will be dealt with in P. Sihvonen et al., 2019, unpublished data. Full-size DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7386/fig-4" figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767538" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5767538/files/figure.png" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
) that consists of two clades:
<taxonomicName authorityName="Turner" authorityYear="1929" box="[582,734,821,847]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Ecphyas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="holopsara">
<emphasis box="[582,734,821,847]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Ec. holopsara</emphasis>
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+
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<emphasis box="[764,909,821,848]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">S. xanthastis</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName authorityName="" baseAuthorityName="Herrich-Schaffer" baseAuthorityYear="1855" box="[965,1125,821,847]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Epidesmia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chilonaria">
<emphasis box="[965,1125,821,847]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Ep. chilonaria</emphasis>
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+ five other genera. Branch support values from IQ-TREE strongly support the monophyly of this clade (SH-like and UFBoot2 = 100), while in RAxML the clade is moderately supported (RBS = 89).
</paragraph>
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These genera have earlier been assigned to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Guenee. Meyrick" authorityYear="1858" box="[1003,1192,941,967]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Oenochrominae">Oenochrominae</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[1200,1223,941,967]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">s.l</emphasis>
. (
<bibRefCitation author="Scoble MJ &amp; Edwards ED" box="[1248,1526,941,967]" journalOrPublisher="Entomologica Scandinavica" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" pagination="371 - 399" part="20" refId="ref20574" refString="Scoble MJ, Edwards ED. 1990. Parepisparis Bethune-Baker and the composition of the Oenochrominae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Entomologica Scandinavica 20 (4): 371 - 399 DOI 10.1163 / 187631289 X 00375." title="Parepisparis Bethune-Baker and the composition of the Oenochrominae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)" type="journal article" year="1990">
<emphasis box="[1248,1526,941,967]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Scoble &amp; Edwards, 1990</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
). However, we recovered the group as a well-supported lineage independent from
<taxonomicName authorityName="Guenee. Meyrick" authorityYear="1858" box="[498,687,1021,1047]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Oenochrominae">Oenochrominae</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[696,742,1021,1046]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">s.str</emphasis>
. and transfer them to
<taxonomicName authority="Murillo-Ramos &amp; Brehm &amp; Sihvonen &amp; Hausmann &amp; Holm &amp; Ghanavi &amp; Õunap &amp; Truuverk &amp; Staude &amp; Friedrich &amp; Tammaru &amp; Wahlberg, 2019" authorityName="Murillo-Ramos &amp; Brehm &amp; Sihvonen &amp; Hausmann &amp; Holm &amp; Ghanavi &amp; Õunap &amp; Truuverk &amp; Staude &amp; Friedrich &amp; Tammaru &amp; Wahlberg" authorityYear="2019" box="[1009,1168,1021,1047]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" status="subfam. n." subFamily="Epidesmiinae">Epidesmiinae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1181,1304,1021,1047]" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" rank="subFamily">subfam. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
(
<tableCitation box="[1323,1411,1021,1047]" captionStart="Table 2" captionStartId="15.[117,172,248,269]" captionText="Table 2 Summary of formally proposed taxonomic changes." pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Table 2</tableCitation>
).
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Phylogenetic position:
<taxonomicName authorityName="Murillo-Ramos &amp; Brehm &amp; Sihvonen &amp; Hausmann &amp; Holm &amp; Ghanavi &amp; Õunap &amp; Truuverk &amp; Staude &amp; Friedrich &amp; Tammaru &amp; Wahlberg" authorityYear="2019" box="[798,955,1060,1086]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Epidesmiinae">Epidesmiinae</taxonomicName>
is sister to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Guenee. Meyrick" authorityYear="1858" box="[1092,1281,1060,1086]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Oenochrominae">Oenochrominae</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[1290,1336,1061,1086]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">s.str</emphasis>
. +
<taxonomicName authority="Geometrinae" authorityName="Duncan &amp; Westwood" authorityYear="1841" box="[1377,1476,1060,1086]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Eumelea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1377,1476,1060,1086]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Eumelea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
+
<taxonomicName authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1815" box="[498,649,1100,1126]" pageId="21" pageNumber="12" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Geometrinae">Geometrinae</taxonomicName>
+
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Abraham et al." baseAuthorityYear="2001" box="[684,822,1100,1126]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Ennominae">Ennominae</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="21.[498,1542,542,1645]" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">
Short description of
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: Antennae in males unipectinate (exception:
<taxonomicName authorityName="Warren" authorityYear="1897" box="[1441,1526,1140,1166]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Adeixis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1441,1526,1140,1166]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Adeixis</emphasis>
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), shorter towards the apex. Pectination moderate or long. Thorax and abdomen slender (unlike in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Guenee. Meyrick" authorityYear="1858" box="[622,816,1220,1247]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Oenochrominae">Oenochrominae</taxonomicName>
). Forewings with sinuous postmedial line and areole present. Forewings planiform (with wings lying flat on the substrate) in resting position, held like a triangle and cover the hindwings.
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<paragraph blockId="21.[498,1542,542,1645]" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">
Diagnosis of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Murillo-Ramos &amp; Brehm &amp; Sihvonen &amp; Hausmann &amp; Holm &amp; Ghanavi &amp; Õunap &amp; Truuverk &amp; Staude &amp; Friedrich &amp; Tammaru &amp; Wahlberg" authorityYear="2019" box="[685,845,1339,1365]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Epidesmiinae">Epidesmiinae</taxonomicName>
: The genera included in this subfamily form a strongly supported clade with DNA sequence data from the following gene regions (exemplar
<taxonomicName authority="(Herrich-Schaffer, 1855))" authorityName="" baseAuthorityName="Herrich-Schaffer" baseAuthorityYear="1855" box="[498,1049,1419,1446]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Epidesmia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chilonaria">
<emphasis box="[498,743,1419,1445]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Epidesmia chilonaria</emphasis>
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1855))
</taxonomicName>
ArgK (MK738299), Ca-ATPase (MK738690), CAD (MK738960), COI (MK739187), EF1a (MK740168), GAPDH (MK740402), MDH (MK740974) and Nex9 (MK741433). Athorough morphological investigation of the subfamily, including diagnostic characters, is under preparation.
</paragraph>
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Distribution: Most genera are distributed in the Australian region, with some species ranging into the Oriental region.
<taxonomicName authorityName="Warren" authorityYear="1894" box="[885,1060,1618,1644]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Abraxaphantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[885,1060,1618,1644]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Abraxaphantes</emphasis>
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occurs exclusively in the Oriental region.
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