| Colotois | |
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| Colotois pennaria | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Subfamily: | Ennominae |
| Tribe: | Colotoini |
| Genus: | Colotois Hübner, 1823 |
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