Cinglis Guenée, 1858

Wanke, Dominic, Hausmann, Axel, Lee, Kyung Min, Murillo-Ramos, Leidys, Sihvonen, Pasi & Rajaei, Hossein, 2023, Systematics and integrative taxonomic revision of the tribe Scopulini Duponchel, 1845 in Iran (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Sterrhinae), Zootaxa 5359 (1), pp. 1-96 : 9

Cinglis Guenée, 1858 stat. rev.

Cinglis Guenée, 1858 . Histoire naturelle des insectes. Spécies général des lépidoptères, 10: 114. Type species: Fidonia humifusaria Eversmann, 1837 .

Pseudocinglis Hausmann, 1994 syn. nov. Nota Lepidopterologica 16: 203. Type species: Glossotrophia eurata Prout, 1913 . Here regarded as synonym of Cinglis based on molecular and morphological examination.

Remarks. The genus was regarded as a synonym of Scopula by Sihvonen (2003, 2005a), but as a valid genus by other authors (e.g., Hausmann 2004; Lehmann & Zahiri 2011). The phylogenetic analysis in the present paper allows to classify Cinglis as a valid genus (see Systematics part and Plate 1 ). This result is further supported by the following morphological characters: venation with one areole in the forewing; vein R1–4 and vein R5 on a common stalk arising from the areole; hindwing with Rs and M1 stalked (see Plate 2B, C ); male genitalia with socii connected by a sclerite; aedeagus bearing one cornutus; 8th sternite with a concave anterior margin (Hausmann 2004); female genitalia sterigma with a circular sclerite around the ostium bursae; signum absent, presence of a lateral sclerite (Hausmann 2004).

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PLATE 1. Phylogenetic position of the focus taxa of this study (highlighted in blue): Cinglis humifusaria stat. rev. (Cinglis revived from synonymy under Scopula), Cinglis benigna comb. nov. (taxon benigna transferred from Scopula to Cinglis), Scopuloides fucata stat. rev. (Scopuloides revived from synonymy under Scopula), Scopula sacraria, Scopula diffinaria and Scopula chalcographata (data supports classification of these taxa in Scopula, not in Glossotrophia, and the latter is considered a junior synonym of Scopula) within the tribe Scopulini. The numbers above the branches are Rapid Bootstrap support (RBS) on the best scoring ML tree (Stamatakis 2008). Values ≥ 85 (%) indicate supported clades.

PLATE 2. Wing venation of Scopulini genera existent in Iran. A: Problepsis wiltshirei, stat. rev., B: Cinglis humifusaria stat. rev., C: Cinglis benigna comb. nov., D: Scopuloides origalis stat. rev., E: Scopula ornata and F: Scopula relictata.