Cleorodes Warren, 1894 does not belong in the tribe Boarmiini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
2007
Jaan VIIDALEPP | Toomas TAMMARU | Niina SNÄLL | Kai RUOHOMÄKI | Niklas WAHLBERG
The geometrid genus Cleorodes is shown to belong in the tribe Gnophini (sensu lato) and not in Boarmiini as previously assumed. The conclusion is based on an analysis of morphological characters of a number of genera in these tribes. Moreover, the result is unambiguously supported by a phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence variation in three nuclear gene regions (segments D1 and D2 of 28S rRNA, and elongation factor 1α) and a mitochondrial gene, cytochrome oxidase-1. The phylogenetic hypothesis is based on a combined sequence data set, which was analysed using direct optimisation.
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