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.
Systematics 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, 1882Vasilenko, Sergei V. "Lythria venustata (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), a Rare Species from Kazakhstan." Entomological Review 89.3 (2009): 374-376.
Phylogenics Within the Sterrhinae, the Lythriini are probably the sister group of the Rhodometrini, as diagrammed by the cladogram below:Sihvonen, Pasi & Lauri Kaila. "Phylogeny and tribal classification of Sterrhinae with emphasis on delimiting Scopulini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)." Systematic Entomology 29 (2004): 324–358. Õunap, Erki, Jaan Viidalepp, & Urmas Saarma. "Systematic position of Lythriini revised: transferred from Larentiinae to Sterrhinae (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)." Zoologica Scripta 37.4 (2008): 405-413.
References
External links "Fotoübersicht Sterrhinae". Lepiforum e.V. "Lythria sanguinaria (Duponchel, 1842)". Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa.
Kimber, Ian "There were 119 matches for the search term 'Sterrhinae'". UKMoths. Retrieved from the original. September 20, 2012. Fauna Europaea, with Lythriini listed as a belonging to the subfamily Larentiinae