Piercia

Piercia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Tribe:	Cataclysmiini
Genus:	Piercia; Janse, 1933
Type species
	Epirrhoe prasinaria; Warren, 1901
Diversity
	Almost 60 species

Piercia is a genus in the geometer moth family (Geometridae). It belongs to subfamily Larentiinae, but therein its relationships are fairly obscure. About 10 species occur in southern and eastern Asia, but most – almost 50 as of 2005 – are found in Africa.^[1]

Selected species

Species of Piercia include:^[2]

Piercia alpinaria Krüger, 2005
Piercia dryas (Prout, 1915)
Piercia lichenocosmia Krüger, 2005
Piercia petraria Krüger, 2005
Piercia prasinaria (Warren, 1901)
Piercia smaragdinata (Walker, 1862)
Piercia cf. smaragdinata 'Janse 1933'^[3]

Footnotes

^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Krüger (2005)
^ Krüger (2005), and see references in Savela (2009)
^ Mentioned in Krüger (2005)

References

Krüger, M. (2005): New species of geometrid moths from Lesotho (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 42: 19–45. HTML abstract
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Piercia. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Piercia. Version of 2009-APR-29. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.

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[1] Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Krüger (2005)

[2] Krüger (2005), and see references in Savela (2009)

[inkrüger2005-3] Mentioned in Krüger (2005)

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