Larentiini Duponchel, 1845

Viidalepp, Jaan, 2011, A morphological review of tribes in Larentiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), Zootaxa 3136, pp. 1-44 : 28-29

Tribe Larentiini Duponchel, 1845

( Figs 98–107 ) (Mesoleucini McGuffin, 1958)

Pierce (1914) described his group “Entephriinae” as follows: valva rounded (i.e. sacculus region wholly fused to), costa thickened, plate-like; manica thickly and minutely spined; anellus dorsal lobes or calcar [present]. (Pierce grouped some Colostygia Hübner ( Fig. 83 ) species with Entephria , therefore anellus lobes mentioned); calcar produced to a long arm is mentioned in texts for Entephria Stephens species; medially dilated valve costa reminds that in Thera Stephens and allied cidariine genera but differs in pollex -like outstanding apical process.

Following characters enable us to delimit the tribe: male genital armature with dorsal arms of vinculum dilated triangular, tegumen much slender; a thick hair lock arising from base of valve costa; female apophyses short (shared with Xanthorhoini ); vinculum projecting flap-like between the bases of sacculi.

McGuffin (1958) separated a tribe Mesoleucini from Hydriomenini s. l. according to morphological characters of larvae; Herbulot recombined these genera into Larentiini . Krüger (2005) has described some species of Entephria with Piercia -like ornamentation to juxta. Distribution: (Neotropical, Afrotropical), Palaearctic.

Figures

FIGURES 98 – 102, Male and female genitalia of Larentiini. 98, Male genitalia of Photoscotosia palaearctica (Staudinger) (Kyrgyzstan); 99, male genitalia of Mesoleuca albicillata (Linnaeus); 100, female genitalia of M. albicillata (Linnaeus); 101, male genitalia of Larentia datinaria (Oberthür) (Malta); 102, female genitalia of Larentia clavaria (Haworth).

FIGURES 103 – 108, Male coremata, male and female genitalia of Cataclysmini. 103, Male genitalia and aedeagus of Cataclysme riguata (Hübner) (Marocco); 104, male genitalia and posterior segments of abdomen of Phibalapteryx virgata (Hufnagel); 105, coremata of male C. riguata (Hübner) (Marocco); 106, the last abdominal segments and coremata of P. virgata (Hufnagel); 107, male genitalia and aedeagus of Paraplaneta sternecki (Prout) (China); 108, female genitalia of P. sternecki (Prout) (China).

FIGURES 78 – 83, Male genitalia of Cidariini and Solitaneini. 78, Male genitalia and aedeagus of Pennithera taigana (Djakonov) (Primorye); 79, male genitalia and aedeagus of Gandaritis pyraliata (Denis & Schiffermüller); 80, male genitalia and aedeagus of Cidaria fulvata (Forster); 81, male genitalia and aedeagus of Solitanea mariae (Stauder) (Italy); 82, male genitalia and aedeagus of Brabirodes cerevia Druce (Nicaragua); 83, male genitalia and aedeagus of Colostygia kitschelti (Rebel) (Switzerland).