Venusia (moth)

Genus of moths

Venusia

Venusia cambrica
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Geometridae
Subfamily:  | Larentiinae
Tribe:  | Asthenini
Genus:  | Venusia
Curtis, 1839[1]
Synonyms

* Discoloxia Warren, 1895

Venusia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by John Curtis in 1839.[2]

## Species

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* Venusia accentuata (Prout, 1914)
* Venusia albinea (Prout, 1938)
* Venusia apicistrigaria (Djakonov, 1936)
* Venusia balausta Xue, 1999
* Venusia biangulata (Sterneck, 1938)
* Venusia blomeri (Curtis, 1832)
* Venusia brevipectinata Prout, 1938
* Venusia cambrica Curtis, 1839
* Venusia comptaria (Walker, 1860)
* Venusia conisaria Hampson, 1903
* Venusia crassisigna Inoue, 1987
* Venusia dilecta Yazaki, 1995
* Venusia distrigaria (Boisduval, 1833)
* Venusia eucosma (Prout, 1914)
* Venusia inefficax (Prout, 1938)
* Venusia kasyata Wiltshire, 1966
* Venusia kioudjrouaria Oberthür, 1893
* Venusia laria Oberthür, 1893
* Venusia lilacina (Warren, 1893)
* Venusia limata Inoue, 1982
* Venusia lineata Wileman, 1916
* Venusia maniata Xue, 1999
* Venusia marmoraria (Leech, 1897)
* Venusia megaspilata (Warren, 1895)
* Venusia naparia Oberthür, 1893
* Venusia nigrifurca (Prout, 1926)
* Venusia obliquisigna (Moore, 1888)
* Venusia ochrota Hampson, 1903
* Venusia pallidaria Hampson, 1903
* Venusia paradoxa Xue, 1999
* Venusia pearsalli (Dyar, 1906)
* Venusia phasma (Butler, 1879)
* Venusia planicaput Inoue, 1987
* Venusia punctiuncula Prout, 1938
* Venusia purpuraria (Hampson, 1895)
* Venusia scitula Xue, 1999
* Venusia semistrigata (Christoph, 1881)
* Venusia sikkimensis (Warren, 1893)
* Venusia syngenes Wehrli, 1931
* Venusia tchraria Oberthür, 1893
* Venusia violettaria Wehrli, 1931
* Venusia yasudai Inoue, 1987

## Status unclear

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* Venusia participata (Sauter, 1869), described as Eupithecia participata from East Prussia. It is sometimes attributed to Grentzenberg instead of Sauter.[3]

## References

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Wikispecies has information related to Venusia.

1. ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Venusia Curtis 1839". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on August 3, 2018.
2. ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Venusia Curtis, 1839". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/s93616qw. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
3. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Venusia participata​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.

Taxon identifiers

Venusia|

* Wikidata: Q1368512
* Wikispecies: Venusia
* BioLib: 52982
* BOLD: 7676
* BugGuide: 15497
* ButMoth: 30336.0
* CoL: 92Q96
* EoL: 35060
* Fauna Europaea: 444469
* Fauna Europaea (new): 41c772ff-2b70-4380-9757-1f9fdc250633
* GBIF: 1977104
* iNaturalist: 178655
* ITIS: 189240
* LepIndex: 228046
* NBN: NHMSYS0000521033
* NCBI: 572910
* NZOR: 758c7a7d-599e-4769-b8be-6ef2df4f465b
* Open Tree of Life: 467714
* WoRMS: 326070

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