Pasiphila | |
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Pasiphila rectangulata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Tribe: | Eupitheciini |
Genus: | Pasiphila Meyrick, 1883[1] |
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Pasiphila is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. As of 2005 about 36 species were known, and of these, some 27 are native to New Zealand.[2][3]
Pasiphila was formerly treated as a synonym of Chloroclystis, as was Gymnodisca, which is now mostly treated as a subgenus of Pasiphila. Rhinoprora is sometimes treated as a synonym of subgenus Gymnodisca.
Furthermore, a number of species which were included in Pasiphila are now mostly placed in Pasiphilodes.