Pasiphila

Pasiphila
Pasiphila rectangulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Larentiinae
Tribe: Eupitheciini
Genus: Pasiphila
Meyrick, 1883[1]
Species

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Synonyms
  • Calliclystis Dietze, 1910
  • Cithecia Staudinger, 1897
  • Helastiodes Warren, 1895
  • Gymnodisca Warren, 1895

Pasiphila is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. As of 2005 about 36 species were known, and of these, some 27 are native to New Zealand.[2]

Species

Taxonomy

Pasiphila was formerly treated as a synonym of Chloroclystis, as was Gymnodisca, which is now mostly treated as a subgenus of Pasiphila. Rhinoprora is sometimes treated as a synonym of subgenus Gymnodisca.

Furthermore, a number of species which were included in Pasiphila are now mostly placed in Pasiphilodes.

References

  1. "Home of Ichneumonoidea". Taxapad. Dicky Sick Ki Yu. 1997–2012. Retrieved 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. 1 2 Viidalepp, J. and V. Mironov. (2005). Pasiphila hyrcanica sp. n.(Geometridae, Larentiinae) – a new species from Azerbaijan and Iran. Nota Lepidopterologica 28(3-4) 193-201.
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