title: Parectropis
text: # Parectropis
  
  Parectropis is a genus in the geometer moth family (Geometridae). A small Old World genus, it contains only a good dozen species altogether, though new ones are still being discovered. Only one species (P. similaria) is found in Europe; most others live in Asia though some occur in Africa.
  
  ## Selected species
  
  Species of Parectropis include:
  
  * Parectropis alticolaria Krüger, 2005
  * Parectropis delosaria (Walker, [1863]) (formerly in Ectropis)
  * Parectropis extersaria (Hübner, 1799) (sometimes in P. similaria)
  * Parectropis fansipana Sato, 2006
  * Parectropis nigrosparsa (Wileman & South, 1923)
  * Parectropis paracyclophora Sato & M.Wang, 2006
  * Parectropis pectinicornis Krüger, 2005
  * Parectropis siamensis
  * Parectropis similaria (Hufnagel, 1767)
  * Parectropis simplex (Warren, 1914) (formerly in Ectropis)
  * Parectropis subflava (Bastelberger, 1909) (formerly in Ectropis)
  * Parectropis 'Camdeboo Mountains'
  * Parectropis 'Sterkstroom'
  
  ## Footnotes
  
  * ↑ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Krüger (2005), FE (2011)
  * ↑ Krüger (2005), FE (2011), and see references in Savela (2001)
  * 1 2 Mentioned in Krüger (2005)
  