Catalogue of the type specimens of Geometridae (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea) from research collections of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

The Catalogue includes the images of dorsal views (occasionally lateral view of brachypterous females) of the moths and its labels, detailed label and georeferenced collection data showing type localities, and references to original descriptions for primary types of 432 species and subspecies and for secondary type (neotype) of one species of the family Geometridae Leach, 1815 (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea). Primary types belong chiefly to the species described by S. Alphéraky [1–11], O. Bremer [13–14], H. Christoph [15–24], A.M. Djakonov [27–41], E. Eversmann [45–54], L. Graeser [55–57], W. Hedemann [58–60], V.G. Mironov [75–94], J.R. Viidalepp [114–125], E. Wehrli [128–138], and some other specialists [12, 25, 26, 42–44, 61–74, 95–113, 126, 127, 139, 140]. They belong to 164 genera from the subfamilies Archiearinae (2 taxa), Desmobaphrinae (3 taxa), Ennominae (153 taxa), Geometrinae (32 taxa), Larentiinae (201 taxa) and Sterrhinae (42 taxa). A collection of Geometridae is a part of general world-wide collection of Heterocera deposited in the Lepidoptera Department of the Laboratory of Insect Taxonomy of the Zoological Institute RAS. Its Palaearctic part is housed in the 360 standard wooden drawers with glass lids in 9 wooden cabinets. The primary types are kept separately in the individual boxes inside 13 standard wooden drawers. Besides the Palaearctic taxa (primarily from the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union and adjacent countries), collection of Geometridae comprises also different taxa from Oriental (Korea, China, India, Thailand, Vietnam,), Afrotropical, Nearctic and, to a lesser extent, Neotropical region. Digitizing of the Geometridae type specimens collection of the Zoological Institute RAS was financially supported by the grant of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (N 075-15-2021-1069).