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{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Piercia
| authority = Janse, 1933
| type_species = ''[[Epirrhoe prasinaria]]''
| type_species_authority = Warren, 1901
| diversity_link = #Selected species
| diversity = Almost 60 species
}}
'''''Piercia''''' is a [[genus]] in the [[geometer moth]] [[family (biology)|family]] (Geometridae). It belongs to [[subfamily]] [[Larentiinae]], but therein its relationships are fairly obscure. About 10 [[species]] occur in southern and eastern [[Asia]], but most &ndash; almost 50 as of 2005 &ndash; are found in [[Africa]].<ref>Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Krüger (2005)</ref>
==Selected species==
[[Species]] of ''Piercia'' include:<ref>Krüger (2005), and see references in Savela (2009)</ref>
* ''[[Piercia alpinaria]]'' <small>Krüger, 2005</small><!-- *AnnalsOfTheTransvaalMuseum42:19. -->
* ''[[Piercia dryas]]'' <small>(Prout, 1915)</small>
* ''[[Piercia lichenocosmia]]'' <small>Krüger, 2005</small><!-- *AnnalsOfTheTransvaalMuseum42:19. -->
* ''[[Piercia petraria]]'' <small>Krüger, 2005</small><!-- *AnnalsOfTheTransvaalMuseum42:19. -->
* ''[[Piercia prasinaria]]'' <small>(Warren, 1901)</small>
* ''[[Piercia smaragdinata]]'' <small>(Walker, 1862)</small>
* [[Piercia cf. smaragdinata 'Janse 1933'|''Piercia'' cf. ''smaragdinata'' 'Janse 1933']]<ref name = inkrüger2005>Mentioned in Krüger (2005)</ref>
==Footnotes==
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==References==
* {{aut|Krüger, M.}} (2005): New species of geometrid moths from Lesotho (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea: Geometridae). ''Annals of the Transvaal Museum'' '''42''': 19–45. [http://www.sabinet.co.za/abstracts/nfi_annalstm/nfi_annalstm_v42_a3.html HTML abstract]
* {{aut|Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul}} (2004): [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projects/butmoth/index.dsml Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species] &ndash; [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projects/butmoth/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=23099.0 ''Piercia'']. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
* {{aut|Savela, Markku}} (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms &ndash; [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/geometroidea/geometridae/larentiinae/piercia/index.html ''Piercia'']. Version of 2009-APR-29. Retrieved 2011-APR-21.
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[[Category:Geometridae]]
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