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Pityeja
Sign in to savePityeja is a Neotropical moth genus in the family Geometridae erected by Francis Walker in 1861.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyGeometridae
Observations731
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Geometridae
- Collections
- MHNCA, USNM
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Geometridae
- Image
- Pityeja histrionaria, Venezuela.jpg
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Pityeja is a Neotropical moth genus in the family Geometridae erected by Francis Walker in 1861.
Pityeja have relatively conspicuous wing patterns, which probably led to overestimation of their species richness in the past.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pityeja” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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