Pithea

Pithea ferruginea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Phaegopterina
Genus: Pithea
Walker, 1856
Species: P. ferruginea
Binomial name
Pithea ferruginea
Walker, 1856
Synonyms
  • Opharus ferruginea

Pithea is a genus of arctiine tussock moths in the Erebidae family. The genus contains only one species, Pithea ferruginea, which is found in Colombia.[1]

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