Pasiphila

Pasiphila
Pasiphila bilineolata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Tribe:	Eupitheciini
Genus:	Pasiphila Meyrick, 1883 [1]
Type species
Pasiphila bilineolata
Synonyms
CalliclystisDietze, 1910 CitheciaStaudinger, 1897 HelastiodesWarren, 1895 GymnodiscaWarren, 1895

Pasiphila is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1883. ^[2] Meyrick gave a more detailed description of this genus in 1884. ^[3] As of 2005 about 36 species were known, and of these, some 27 are native to New Zealand. ^{[4] [5]}

Species

• Pasiphila acompsa
• Pasiphila aristias
• Pasiphila bilineolata
• Pasiphila charybdis
• Pasiphila chloerata - sloe pug
• Pasiphila coelica
• Pasiphila cotinaea
• Pasiphila debiliata
• Pasiphila derasata
• Pasiphila dryas
• Pasiphila erratica
• Pasiphila excisa
• Pasiphila fumipalpata
• Pasiphila furva
• Pasiphila halianthes
• Pasiphila heighwayi
• Pasiphila humilis
• Pasiphila hyrcanica ^[4]
• Pasiphila kumakurai
• Pasiphila lita
• Pasiphila lunata
• Pasiphila magnimaculata
• Pasiphila malachita
• Pasiphila melochlora
• Pasiphila muscosata
• Pasiphila nebulosa
• Pasiphila obscura
• Pasiphila plinthina
• Pasiphila punicea
• Pasiphila rectangulata - green pug
• Pasiphila rivalis
• Pasiphila rubella
• Pasiphila sandycias
• Pasiphila semochlora
• Pasiphila socotrensis
• Pasiphila subcinctata
• Pasiphila suffusa
• Pasiphila urticae
• Pasiphila vieta

Taxonomy

Pasiphila was formerly treated as a synonym of Chloroclystis , as was Gymnodisca, which is now mostly treated as a subgenus of Pasiphila. Rhinoprora is sometimes treated as a synonym of subgenus Gymnodisca.

Furthermore, a number of species which were included in Pasiphila are now mostly placed in Pasiphilodes .

References

1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Pasiphila Meyrick 1883". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on December 15, 2018.
2. Edward Meyrick (September 1883). "Monograph of New Zealand Geometrina". New Zealand Journal of Science. 1: 527. Wikidata   Q110691894.
3. Edward Meyrick (May 1884). "A Monograph of the New Zealand Geometrina". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 16: 66. ISSN   1176-6158. Wikidata   Q109615359.
4. Viidalepp, J. and V. Mironov. (2005). Pasiphila hyrcanica sp. n.(Geometridae, Larentiinae) – a new species from Azerbaijan and Iran. Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine Nota Lepidopterologica 28(3-4) 193-201.
5. Dugdale, J. S. (10 November 1971). "Entomology of the Aucklands and other islands south of New Zealand: Lepidoptera, excluding non-crambine Pyralidae". Pacific Insects Monographs . 27: 55–172. ISSN   0078-7515. Wikidata   Q64006453.