Lythria plumularia

Lythria plumularia

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae

Lythria is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1823. It is the only genus of the monotypic tribe Lythriini described by Claude Herbulot in 1962. Systematics The genus Lythria consists of five species: Tribe Lythriini Herbulot, 1962 Genus Lythria Hübner, 1823 Lythria cruentaria (Hufnagel, 1767) Lythria plumularia (Freyer, 1831) Lythria purpuraria (Linnaeus, 1758) Lythria sanguinaria (Duponchel, 1842) Lythria venustata Staudinger, 1882 Phylogenics Within the Sterrhinae, the Lythriini are probably the sister group of the Rhodometrini, as diagrammed by…

Distribution

Lythria plumularia — (c) Thierry Arbault, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Thierry Arbault · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 9Switzerland · 7Italy · 4

Sources and credits

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Lythria plumularia

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