Phytometra
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Boletobiinae |
| Genus: | Phytometra Haworth, 1809 |
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Phytometra is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Phytometrinae within Erebidae or in the subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae.[1][2]
Species
[edit]Some species of this genus are:[3]
- Phytometra africana (Snellen, 1872)
- Phytometra apicata Barnes & McDunnough, 1916
- Phytometra carnea (Prout A. E., 1922)
- Phytometra coniota (Hampson, 1926)
- Phytometra curvifera (Hampson, 1926)
- Phytometra duplicalis (Walker, 1866)
- Phytometra ernestinana Blanchard, 1840 – Ernestine's moth
- Phytometra euchroa Hampson, 1918
- Phytometra formosalis Walker, 1866
- Phytometra haemaceps (Hampson, 1910)
- Phytometra haematoessa (Hampson, 1910)
- Phytometra helesusalis (Walker, 1859)
- Phytometra heliriusalis (Walker, 1859)
- Phytometra hypopsamma (Hampson, 1926)
- Phytometra laevis Swinhoe, 1901
- Phytometra lentistriata (Hampson, 1910)
- Phytometra luna Zerny, 1927
- Phytometra magalium (Townsend, 1958)
- Phytometra nigrogemmea Romieux, 1943
- Phytometra nyctichroa (Hampson, 1926)
- Phytometra obliqualis Dyar, 1912
- Phytometra orgiae Grote, 1875
- Phytometra olivescens (Hampson, 1910)
- Phytometra opsiphora (Hampson, 1926)
- Phytometra ossea (Saalmüller, 1891)
- Phytometra pentheus (Fawcett, 1916)
- Phytometra pyralomima (Wiltshire, 1961)
- Phytometra rhodopa (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
- Phytometra rhodarialis Walker, 1859 – pink-bordered yellow moth
- Phytometra sacraria (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
- Phytometra sanctiflorentis Boisduval, 1834
- Phytometra signifera (Hampson, 1926)
- Phytometra silona (Schaus, 1893)
- Phytometra subflavalis (Walker, 1865)
- Phytometra umbrifera (Hampson, 1910)
- Phytometra viridaria Clerck, 1759 – small purple-barred
- Phytometra zotica (Viette, 1956)
References
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- ^ Zahiri, Reza; et al. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 37: 102–124. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x.
- ^ Lafontaine, Donald; Schmidt, Christian (19 Mar 2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 26. Bibcode:2010ZooK...40....1L. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Phytometra Haworth, 1809". Afromoths. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
- Savela, Markku. "Phytometra Haworth, 1809". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 8, 2019.