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genus

Biston Leach, 1815

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Arthropoda - arthropods »  class Insecta - insects »  order Lepidoptera - butterflies and moths »  family Geometridae - geometer moths »  tribus Boarmiini

Scientific synonyms

Amphidasis Treitschke, 1825
Blepharoctenia Warren, 1894
Culcula Moore, 1888
Dasyphara Billberg, 1820
Epamraica Matsumura, 1910
Euboea Gumppenberg, 1887
Eubyja Hübner, 1825
Eubyjodonta Warren, 1893
Pachys Hübner, 1806 (suppressed name) supp.

Type taxon:Geometra prodromaria Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775

Included taxa

Number of records: 34

species Biston achyra Wehrli, 1936
species Biston bengaliaria (Guenée, 1857)
species Biston betularia (Linnaeus, 1758) - Peppered Moth

Biston betularia

species Biston brevipennata Inoue, 1982
species Biston bura (Warren, 1894)
species Biston contectaria (Walker, 1863)
species Biston edwardsi (L.B. Prout, 1938)
species Biston exalbescens Inoue, 2000
species Biston falcata (Warren, 1893)
species Biston gigantea Inoue, 1985

Biston gigantea

species Biston hypoleuca Kuznetsov, 1901
species Biston inouei Holloway, 1993
species Biston insularis (Warren, 1894)

Biston insularis

species Biston marginata Shiraki, 1913
species Biston mediolata Jiang, Nan, Dayong Xue & Hongxiang Han, 2011
species Biston melacron Wehrli, 1941
species Biston multidentata (Guedet, 1941)
species Biston panterinaria (Bremer & Grey, 1853)
species Biston pelidna Prout, 1929
species Biston perclara (Warren, 1899)
species Biston prinodes (West, 1929)
species Biston pustulata (Warren, 1896)
species Biston quercii (Oberthür, 1910)
species Biston regalis (Moore, 1888)
species Biston robusta Butler, 1879
species Biston rosenbaueri Müller, 2018
species Biston strataria (Hufnagel, 1767) - Oak Beauty

Biston strataria

species Biston strigaria (Moore, 1879)
species Biston subflavus Inoue, 1985
species Biston subregalis Inoue, 1992
species Biston suppressaria (Guenée, 1857)
species Biston thibetaria (Oberthür, 1886)
species Biston thoracicaria (Oberthür, 1884)
species Biston tianschanica Wehrli, 1940

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Explanations

supp. suppressed name - name suppressed by commission for international code of nomenclature for example in case it is a long forgotten senior synonym of some widely used name and therefore should have priority over junior synonym.