''Lythria'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s in the family
Geometridae
The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek ''geo'' γεω (derivative form of or "the earth"), and ''metro ...
erected by
Jacob Hübner in 1823. It is the only genus of the
monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...
tribe Lythriini described by
Claude Herbulot
Claude Herbulot (19 February 1908 – 19 January 2006) was a French entomologist. He was born in Charleville-Mézières and died in Paris. He was a lepidopterist and specialised in moths in the family Geometridae. His collection is housed at the Zo ...
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 the cladogram below:
[Õunap, Erki, Jaan Viidalepp, & Urmas Saarma. "Systematic position of Lythriini revised: transferred from Larentiinae to Sterrhinae (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)." ''Zoologica Scripta'' 37.4 (2008): 405-413. ]
References
External links
"Fotoübersicht Sterrhinae" ''Lepiforum e.V.''
''Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa''.
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* Kimber, Ia
"There were 119 matches for the search term 'Sterrhinae'" ''UKMoths''. Retrieved from th
original September 20, 2012.
''Fauna Europaea'', with Lythriini listed as a belonging to the subfamily Larentiinae
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