Piercia

Piercia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Subfamily:	Larentiinae
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

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