All junior synonyms of
Ectropis use
G. crepuscularia as
type species, and thus, even though this large genus might warrant
subgeneric division, no names are presently available. Apart from
Tephrosia, established by
Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1840, the synonyms are also
junior homonyms and consequently completely invalid. One of them,
Coenobita, was proposed by
Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel in 1848. Gistl was unaware that
Jacob Hübner had described the genus
Ectropis, but he knew of Boisduval's
Tephrosia. However, Gistl misread the name of the spider genus
Theraphosa (established by
Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805) as
Tephrosia, and thus came to believe that
Tephrosia was in need of a new name. He chose
Coenobita, which to his misfortune had been given to a genus of
hermit crabs by
Pierre André Latreille in 1829 already. The other preoccupied synonym,
Boarmia, had earlier been given to closely related moths. That group is now included in
Hypomecis, which thus has become the
type genus of the
tribe Boarmiini in the geometer moth
subfamily Ennominae.
Ectropis is also a member of the Boarmiini.
Selected species Species of
Ectropis include: Some species formerly included here are now placed elsewhere, e.g. in
Calcyopa,
Myrioblephara or
Parectropis ==Footnotes==