Pachista

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Pachista
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Pseudoterpnini
Genus: Pachista
Prout, 1912
Species:
P. superans
Binomial name
Pachista superans
(Butler, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Hypochroma superansButler, 1878
  • Pingasa shirakianaMatsumura, 1931

Pachista is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Prout in 1912. It consists of only one species, Pachista superans, first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878, which is found in China, Japan and Korea. [1]

The larvae feed on Magnolia and Aesculus species.

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References

  1. Pitkin, Linda M.; Han, Hongxiang; James, Shayleen (June 11, 2007). "Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150 (2): 334–412. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x . Archived from the original on April 25, 2012.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)