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Pityeja
Sign in to savePityeja is a Neotropical moth genus in the family Geometridae erected by Francis Walker in 1861.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 5 inbound references to Pityeja, and connects out to Geometridae, Animalia and insect.
Vinony files it under Ourapterygini and Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist).
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyGeometridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Geometridae
- Collections
- MHNCA, USNM
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Geometridae
- Image
- Pityeja histrionaria, Venezuela.jpg
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- taxon name
- Pityeja
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Pityeja
- Commons category
- Pityeja
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Species
- References
- External links
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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