Metallaxis

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Metallaxis
Metallaxis semiustus (Geometridae Sterrhinae Rhodostrophiini).jpg
Metallaxis semiustus from Borneo
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Rhodostrophiini
Genus: Metallaxis
Prout, 1932
Type species
Metallaxis semiustus
Swinhoe, 1894

Metallaxis is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1932.

Species

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