Perizoma

Perizoma
Grass Rivulet (Perizoma albulata) imago
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Subfamily:	Larentiinae
Tribe:	Perizomini
Genus:	Perizoma Hübner, 1825
Type species
Geometra albulata Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
Diversity
Over 150 species
Synonyms
Emmelesia Stephens, 1829a Emmelesia Stephens, 1829b (non Stephens, 1829a: preoccupied) Emmelesia Stephens, 1831 (non Stephens, 1829a: preoccupied) Opisogonia Herrich-Schäffer, 1856 (non Herrich-Schäffer, 1855: preoccupied) Zerynthia Curtis, 1830 (non Ochsenheimer, 1816: preoccupied) and see text

Perizoma is a genus in the geometer moth family (Geometridae). It is the type genus of tribe Perizomini in subfamily Larentiinae. The tribe is considered monotypic by those who include the genera Gagitodes, Martania and Mesotype in Perizoma. Some other less closely related species formerly placed here are now elsewhere in the Larentiinae, e.g. in Entephria of the tribe Larentiini.

Either way, there are more than 150 species of Perizoma currently known, with a generally Northern Hemisphere distribution (e.g. 14 occurring in Europe), and new ones still being described occasionally. Many of them are called rivulets ("the" rivulet is P. affinitata specifically), while others are known as "carpets", a common name for Larentiinae in general.^[1]

One of its junior synonyms is Emmelesia, proposed by J.F. Stephens no less than three times – once validly in 1829, and within the next two years twice more invalidly. Another invalid name of Perizoma – Opisogonia, chosen by G.A. Herrich-Schäffer in 1856 – had already been used by the same author the year before for a different geometer moth genus.^[2]

Selected species

Species of Perizoma include:^[3]

Perizoma ablata (Hulst, 1896) Perizoma actuata (Pearsall, 1909) Perizoma affinitata – The Rivulet Perizoma alaskae (Hulst, 1896) Perizoma albulata – Grass Rivulet Perizoma alchemillata – Small Rivulet Perizoma barrassoi Zahm, Cieslak & Hausmann, 2005 Perizoma bifaciata – Barred Rivulet Perizoma blandiata – Pretty Pinion Perizoma contrita (Prout, 1914) Perizoma costiguttata (Hulst, 1896) Perizoma curvilinea (Hulst, 1896) Perizoma custodiata (Guenée, 1857) Perizoma epictata Barnes & McDunnough, 1916 Perizoma flavofasciata – Sandy Carpet Perizoma flavosparsata (Wagner, 1926) Perizoma fulvida (Butler, 1881) Perizoma grandis (Hulst, 1896)

Perizoma haasi (Hedemann, 1881) Perizoma hydrata Perizoma illepida Inoue, 1955 Perizoma incultaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1848) Perizoma interrupta (Grossbeck, 1910) Perizoma juracolaria (Wehrli, 1919) Perizoma lugdunaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) Perizoma minimata (Staudinger, 1897) Perizoma minorata – Heath Rivulet Perizoma obsoletata (Herrich-Schäffer, 1838) (including P. reisseri) Perizoma ochreata (Grossbeck, 1910) Perizoma oxygramma (Hulst, 1896) Perizoma parahydrata Alberti, 1969 Perizoma parvaria (Leech, 1891) Perizoma saxea (Wileman, 1911) Perizoma seriata (Moore, 1898) Perizoma saxicola Tikhonov, 1994

Footnotes

1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004b), FE (2011)
2. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004ac)
3. FE (2011), and see references in Savela (2008)

References

• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2011): Perizoma. Version 2.4, 2011-JAN-27. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004a): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Opisogonia Herrich-Schäffer, 1855. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004b): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Perizoma. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004c): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Zerynthia Curtis, 1830. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
• Savela, Markku (2008): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Perizoma. Version of 2008-JUN-01. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.