Paromphacodes Warren, 1897

Lindt, Aare, Tasane, Tõnis, Õunap, Erki & Viidalepp, Jaan, 2017, Five new species of the genus Paromphacodes (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae) from High Andes in Ecuador, Zootaxa 4303 (3), pp. 395-406 : 397

Genus Paromphacodes Warren, 1897

The species of Paromphacodes are diagnosed by the combination of their green forewings contrasting with white or greenish white hind wings, and by the presence of two pairs of spurs on hind tibia ( Pitkin 1996). Other geometrine genera with green fore- and white hind wings have one pair of hind tibial spurs and belong to other tribes than Nemoriini . A frenulum is present both in males and females, and the hind wing subcostal vein touches the anterior margin of the discal cell in one point. Four species have hitherto been associated with the genus Paromphacodes ( Pitkin 1996; Scoble & Hausmann 2007). Hereby we recognize five new species described below. The male genitalia of Paromphacodes have a thin, long, rod-like uncus and long socii tapering toward tips, slender valvae with or without a costal expansion. The aedeagus is provided with an anellar plate, the saccus is rounded. The postabdominal segments are typically nemoriine: the sternite A8 is shorter than the tergite A8, slightly bilobed or notched at its posterior edge, with a triangular midrib tapering to the anterior margin of a sternite. This nemoriine genus is allied to Nemoria Hübner and Lissochlora Warren , which have but the uncus dilated apically ( Viidalepp 2017).