Phytometra is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809.
Taxonomy
The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Phytometrinae within Erebidae or in the subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae.
Species
Some species of this genus are:
- Phytometra africana <small>(Snellen, 1872)</small>
- Phytometra apicata <small>Barnes & McDunnough, 1916</small>
- Phytometra carnea <small>(Prout A. E., 1922)</small>
- Phytometra coniota <small>(Hampson, 1926)</small>
- Phytometra curvifera <small>(Hampson, 1926)</small>
- Phytometra duplicalis <small>(Walker, 1866)</small>
- Phytometra ernestinana <small>Blanchard, 1840</small> – Ernestine's moth
- Phytometra euchroa <small>Hampson, 1918</small>
- Phytometra formosalis <small>Walker, 1866</small>
- Phytometra haemaceps <small>(Hampson, 1910)</small>
- Phytometra haematoessa <small>(Hampson, 1910)</small>
- Phytometra helesusalis <small>(Walker, 1859)</small>
- Phytometra heliriusalis <small>(Walker, 1859)</small>
- Phytometra hypopsamma <small>(Hampson, 1926)</small>
- Phytometra laevis <small>Swinhoe, 1901</small>
- Phytometra lentistriata <small>(Hampson, 1910)</small>
- Phytometra luna <small>Zerny, 1927</small>
- Phytometra magalium <small>(Townsend, 1958)</small>
- Phytometra nigrogemmea <small>Romieux, 1943</small>
- Phytometra nyctichroa <small>(Hampson, 1926)</small>
- Phytometra obliqualis <small>Dyar, 1912</small>
- Phytometra orgiae <small>Grote, 1875</small>
- Phytometra olivescens <small>(Hampson, 1910)</small>
- Phytometra opsiphora <small>(Hampson, 1926)</small>
- Phytometra ossea <small>(Saalmüller, 1891)</small>
- Phytometra pentheus <small>(Fawcett, 1916)</small>
- Phytometra pyralomima <small>(Wiltshire, 1961)</small>
- Phytometra rhodopa <small>(Bethune-Baker, 1911)</small>
- Phytometra rhodarialis <small>Walker, 1859</small> – pink-bordered yellow moth
- Phytometra sacraria <small>(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)</small>
- Phytometra sanctiflorentis <small>Boisduval, 1834</small>
- Phytometra signifera <small>(Hampson, 1926)</small>
- Phytometra silona <small>(Schaus, 1893)</small>
- Phytometra subflavalis <small>(Walker, 1865)</small>
- Phytometra umbrifera <small>(Hampson, 1910)</small>
- Phytometra viridaria <small>Clerck, 1759</small> – small purple-barred
- Phytometra zotica <small>(Viette, 1956)</small>
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