Lythria

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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.[1]

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Lythria
Lythria cruentaria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Sterrhinae
Tribe: Lythriini
Herbulot, 1962
Genus: Lythria
Hübner, 1823[1]
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Systematics

The genus Lythria consists of five species:

Phylogenics

Within the Sterrhinae, the Lythriini are probably the sister group of the Rhodometrini, as diagrammed by the cladogram below:[3][4]

Sterrhinae

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