Category: Geometroidea

• Two new Eupithecia

  The great warming continues. Each day brings more insects out. The last couple of weeks has added two new Eupithecia to my list. They’re a tricky genus. There are dozens in BC, and many are very hard to tell apart. Well, let’s add a couple more. The first, Eupithecia maestoso, looked sufficiently different from any…

  April 14, 2025

  Eupithecia, Eupitheciini, Geometridae, Geometroidea, Larentiinae

• Anagogini

  Let’s take a quick look at the members of a tribe in the Ennominae: the Anagogini. Geometer moths are a seriously massive family, and the Ennominae subfamily are pretty darn massive as well. So we’ll chip away at their contents, piece by piece. This is a pretty group of moths – I’ve been fortunate enough…

  December 27, 2023

  Anagonini, Macromoths, Taxon Discussions, Tribe

  Metanema, Metarranthis, Probole, Selenia