Editing Geometer moth (section)

==Systematics==
{{main|List of geometrid genera}}

The placement of the example species follows a 1990 systematic treatment; it may be outdated. Subfamilies are tentatively sorted in a [[phylogenetic]] sequence, from the most [[basal (evolution)|basal]] to the most advanced. Traditionally, the [[Archiearinae]] were held to be the most ancient of the geometer moth lineages, as their [[caterpillar]]s have well-developed [[proleg]]s. However, it now seems that the [[Larentiinae]] are actually older, as indicated by their numerous [[plesiomorph]]ies and [[DNA sequence]] data. They are either an extremely [[basal (evolution)|basal]] lineage of the Geometridae &ndash; together with the [[Sterrhinae]] &ndash; or might even be considered a separate [[family (biology)|family]] of [[Geometroidea]]. As regards the Archiearinae, some species that were traditionally placed therein actually seem to belong to other subfamilies; altogether it seems that in a few cases, the prolegs which were originally lost in the ancestral geometer moths re-[[evolved]] as an [[atavism]].<ref name="Õunap">{{cite journal |last1=Õunap |first1=Erki |last2=Viidalepp |first2=Jaan |last3=Saarma |first3=Urmas |year=2008 |title=Systematic position of Lythriini revised: transferred from Larentiinae to Sterrhinae (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) |journal=[[Zoologica Scripta]] |doi=10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00327.x |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=405–413|s2cid=85800529 }}</ref><ref name="Young">{{cite journal |last=Young |first=Catherine J. |year=2008 |title=Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini using adult morphology, and phylogeny of the Geometridae based on morphological characters |journal=[[Zootaxa]] |volume=1736 |pages=1–141 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1736.1.1 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01736p141f.pdf }}</ref>

[[Larentiinae]] – about 5,800 species, includes the pug moths, mostly temperate, might be a distinct family.<ref name="Õunap"/><ref name="Young"/>

[[Sterrhinae]] – about 2,800 species, mostly tropical, might belong to same family as the Larentiinae.<ref name="Õunap"/>
* [[Birch mocha]], ''Cyclophora albipunctata''
* [[False mocha]], ''Cyclophora porata''
* [[Cyclophora punctaria|Maiden's blush]], ''Cyclophora punctaria''
* [[Riband wave]], ''Idaea aversata''
* [[Small fan-footed wave]], ''Idaea biselata''
* [[Single-dotted wave]], ''Idaea dimidiata''
* [[Small scallop]], ''Idaea emarginata''
* ''[[Idaea filicata]]''
* [[Dwarf cream wave]], ''Idaea fuscovenosa''
* [[Rusty wave]], ''Idaea inquinata''
* [[Purple-bordered gold]], ''Idaea muricata''
* [[Bright wave]], ''Idaea ochrata''
* [[Least carpet]], ''Idaea rusticata''
* [[Small dusty wave]], ''Idaea seriata''
* [[Purple-barred yellow]], ''Lythria cruentaria'' (formerly in Larentiinae)
* [[Vestal (moth)|Vestal]], ''Rhodometra sacraria''
* [[Common pink-barred]], ''Rhodostrophia vibicaria''
* [[Middle lace border]], ''Scopula decorata''
* [[Cream wave]], ''Scopula floslactata''
* [[Small blood-vein]], ''Scopula imitaria''
* [[Lewes wave]], ''Scopula immorata''
* [[Lesser cream wave]], ''Scopula immutata''
* [[Mullein wave]], ''Scopula marginepunctata''
* [[Zachera moth]], ''Chiasmia defixaria''
* [[Blood-vein]], ''Timandra comae''
* [[Eastern blood-vein]], ''Timandra griseata''

[[Desmobathrinae]] – pantropical

[[Geometrinae]] – emerald moths, about 2,300 named species, most tropical

[[Archiearinae]] – twelve<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hemitheini Bruand 1846 - Plazi TreatmentBank |url=https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B2F2569FFDA4F4E6A7FC5AFC02ABFA/1 |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=treatment.plazi.org |language=en}}</ref> species; holarctic, southern Andes and Tasmania, though the latter some seem to belong to the Ennominae,<ref name="Young"/> larvae have all the prolegs but most are reduced.
* [[Archiearis infans|Infant]], ''Archiearis infans'' <small>(Möschler, 1862)</small>
* [[Scarce infant]], ''Leucobrephos brephoides'' <small>(Walker, 1857)</small>

[[Oenochrominae]] – in some treatments used as a "[[wastebin taxon]]" for genera that are difficult to place in other groups

[[Alsophilinae]] – a few genera, defoliators of trees, might belong in the Ennominae, [[tribe (biology)|tribe]] ''[[Boarmiini]]''<ref name="Young"/>
* [[March moth]], ''Alsophila aescularia''
* [[Fall cankerworm]], ''Alsophila pometaria''

[[Ennominae]] – about 9,700 species, including some defoliating pests, global distribution
* †''Eogeometer vadens''<ref name="Fischer_al.2019"/>

Geometridae genera ''[[incertae sedis]]'' include:
* ''[[Dichromodes]]''
* ''[[Homoeoctenia]]''
* ''[[Nearcha]]''
[[File:Hydriomena? protrita.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Hydriomena? protrita]]'' holotype forewing]]
Fossil Geometridae taxa include:
* [[extinction|†]]''[[Eogeometer]]'' <small>Fischer, Michalski & Hausmann, 2019</small><ref name="Fischer_al.2019"/>
* †''[[Hydriomena? protrita]]'' <small>Cockerell, 1922</small> ([[Priabonian]], [[Florissant Formation]], Colorado)<ref name="Cockerell1922">{{cite journal |last1=Cockerell |first1=T. D. A. |year=1922 |title=A fossil Moth from Florissant, Colorado |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=34 |pages=1–2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZNPAAAAYAAJ&q=Hydriomena%22+protrita&pg=PR3}}</ref>
* †''[[Geometridites]]'' <small>Clark et al., 1971</small>