Piercia

Genus of moths

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

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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

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

## References

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* 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.

Taxon identifiers

Piercia|

* Wikidata: Q7191859
* Wikispecies: Piercia
* BioLib: 703496
* BOLD: 190691
* ButMoth: 23099.0
* CoL: 92K26
* EoL: 34985
* GBIF: 1987430
* iNaturalist: 578794
* Insecta.pro: 28483
* IRMNG: 1349904
* LepIndex: 226199
* NCBI: 1804848
* Open Tree of Life: 4280941

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