title: Lythria
text: # Lythria
  
  Lythria is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1823. It is the only genus of the monotypic tribe Lythriini described by Claude Herbulot in 1962.
  
  ## Systematics
  
  The genus Lythria consists of five species:
  
  * Tribe Lythriini Herbulot, 1962
     * Genus Lythria Hübner, 1823
        * Lythria cruentaria (Hufnagel, 1767)
        * Lythria plumularia (Freyer, 1831)
        * Lythria purpuraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
        * Lythria sanguinaria (Duponchel, 1842)
        * Lythria venustata Staudinger, 1882
  
  ## Phylogenics
  
  Within the Sterrhinae, the Lythriini are probably the sister group of the Rhodometrini, as diagrammed by the cladogram below:
  
  