Loxochila Butler, 1881 ("stat. rev.")

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Loxochila Butler, 1881 ("stat. rev.")

Loxochila burmensis (Han, Galsworthy & Xue, 2009) ("sp. nov.")

Loxochila fragilis ( Oberthür, 1916) ("comb. nov.")

Loxochila kina (Swinhoe, 1893) ("comb. nov.")

Loxochila sinoisaria ( Oberthür, 1916) ("comb. nov.")

Loxochila smaragdus (Butler, 1880) ("comb. rev.")

Loxochila tibeta (Chu, 1982) ("comb. nov.")

Notes

One new species was described ( Han et al. 2009b). Loxochila was treated as a junior synonym of Geometra in Parsons et al. (1999) and Scoble and Hausmann (2007). Han et al. (2009b) retained this classification in their revision of Geometra , which divided the genus into two species groups. The type species of Loxochila , at the time named Geometra smaragdus (Butler), served as the eponymous taxon of the smaragdus species group. The molecular phylogeny of Ban et al. (2018) demonstrated that the smaragdus group is a strongly-supported clade that also contains one species from a different genus ( Tanaorhinus kina Swinhoe). Ban et al. (2018) consequently re-instated the generic status of Loxochila and transferred the species in the smaragdus group, including T. kina , to this genus.