Zythos molybdina

Zythos molybdina is a moth of the family Geometridae described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1938. It is found in New Guinea.[2]

Zythos molybdina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Zythos
Species:
Z. molybdina
Binomial name
Zythos molybdina
(Prout, 1938)[1]
Synonyms
  • Nobilia molybdina Prout, 1938
  • Nobilia tombarensis Prout, 1938

Subspecies
  • Zythos molybdina molybdina
  • Zythos molybdina tombarensis (Prout, 1938) (New Britain)

References
  1. Sihvonen, Pasi (April 1, 2005). "Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 473–530. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Zythos molybdina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 15, 2018.


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