Somatina

Somatina is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1858.

Description

The genus is similar to Problepsis, but differs in that the antennae of the male usually being ciliated. Forewings with vein 10 arising from veins 7, 8 and 9 anastomosing (fusing) with vein 11, and then with veins 8 and 9 to form a double areole.^[2]

Species

• Somatina accraria Swinhoe, 1904
• Somatina anthophilata Guenée, [1858]
• Somatina apicipuncta Prout, 1915
• Somatina centrofasciaria (Leech, 1897)
• Somatina chalyboeata (Walker, 1869)
• Somatina ctenophora Prout, 1915
• Somatina densifasciaria Inoue, 1992
• Somatina discata Warren, 1909
• Somatina eurymitra Turner, 1926
• Somatina figurata Warren, 1897
• Somatina fletcheri Herbulot, 1958
• Somatina fraus Prout, 1916
• Somatina fungifera Warren, 1909
• Somatina hombergi Herbulot, 1967
• Somatina impunctulata (Warren, 1901)
• Somatina ioscia Prout, 1932
• Somatina irregularis (Warren, 1898)
• Somatina lemairei Herbulot, 1978
• Somatina lia Prout, 1915
• Somatina macroanthophilata Xue, 1992
• Somatina maeandrata Prout, 1925
• Somatina mozambica (Thierry-Mieg, 1905)
• Somatina nigridiscata (Warren, 1896)
• Somatina obscuriciliata Wehrli, 1924
• Somatina omicraria (Fabricius, 1798)
• Somatina ossicolor Warren, 1898
• Somatina plynusaria (Walker, [1863])
• Somatina postlineata (Warren, 1899)
• Somatina probleptica Prout, 1917
• Somatina prouti Janse, 1934
• Somatina purpurascens Moore, [1887]
• Somatina pythiaria (Guenée, [1858])
• Somatina rhodochila Prout, 1932
• Somatina rosacea Swinhoe, 1894
• Somatina rufifascia Warren, 1896
• Somatina sanctithomae Herbulot, 1958
• Somatina sedata Prout, 1922
• Somatina sublucens (Warren, 1907)
• Somatina subviridata (Warren, 1901)
• Somatina syneorus Prout, 1915
• Somatina transvehens Prout, 1918
• Somatina vestalis (Butler, 1875)
• Somatina virginalis Prout, 1917
• Somatina wiltshirei Prout, 1938

References

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