GEOMETRIDAE
(geometrids, carpets, pugs and loopers)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
ARCHIEARINAE
orange underwings
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 17 images
Archiearis
orange underwings
(Click to open)
 		Genus 1 subtaxa 17 images
ENNOMINAE
a subfamily of moths
Male (Click to open)
 		Subfamily 59 subtaxa 637 images 10 ident. refs
GEOMETRINAE
a subfamily of geometer moths
(Click to open)
 		Subfamily 3 subtaxa 34 images
LARENTIINAE
a subfamily of geometrid moths
(Click to open)
 		Subfamily 72 subtaxa 509 images 22 ident. refs
STERRHINAE
a subfamily of wave moths
(Click to open)
 		Subfamily 19 subtaxa 113 images 7 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyGEOMETRIDAE (geometrids, carpets, pugs and loopers)
SuperfamilyGEOMETROIDEA (butterfly moths)
CladeMacrolepidoptera (macro-moths)
CladeObtectomera (butterflies and most moths)
CladeApoditrysia (butterflies and most moths)
InfraorderDitrysia (butterflies and most moths)
InfraorderHeteroneura (an infraorder of moths and butterflies)
SuborderGLOSSATA (a suborder of moths)
OrderLEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource

Microscopy

Pierce, F.N. 1914 The Genitalia of the Group Geometridae of the Lepidoptera of the British Islands 84+48 Platespp, The Northern Publishing Company

GEOMETRIDAE (geometrids, carpets, pugs and loopers) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for GEOMETRIDAE (geometrids, carpets, pugs and loopers)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 117 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for GEOMETRIDAE (geometrids, carpets, pugs and loopers)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)