''Lythria'' is a genus of
moths in the family
Geometridae erected by
Jacob Hübner
Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of ''Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge'' (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology.
Scientific career
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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''
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Hübner is a Germanic surname, sometimes spelled Huebner or Hubner.
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, 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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