Lythria

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Kingdom Animalia Subfamily Sterrhinae Rank Genus		Family Geometridae Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths

Tribe LythriiniHerbulot, 1962 Lower classifications Lythria cruentaria, Lythria purpuraria

Zuringspanner lythria cruentaria

Lythria is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae and only genus of the tribe Lythriini.

The genus Lythria consists of five species:

Tribe Lythriini Herbulot, 1962

Genus Lythria Hübner, 1823

Lythria cruentaria (Hufnagel, 1767)

Lythria plumularia (Freyer, 1831)

Lythria purpuraria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lythria sanguinaria (Duponchel, 1842)

Lythria venustata Staudinger, 1882

Within the Sterrhinae, the Lythriini are probably the sistergroup of the Rhodometrini, as diagrammed by the cladogram below:

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