Pseudobiston is a genus of moths in the family Pseudobistonidae. It contains only one species, Pseudobiston pinratanai, which is found in North Thailand and North Vietnam.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pseudobistonidae |
| Subfamily: | Pseudobistoninae Minet, Rajaei & Stüning, 2015 |
| Genus: | Pseudobiston Inoue, 1994 |
| Species: | P. pinratanai
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudobiston pinratanai Inoue, 1994
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It was originally assigned to the family Geometridae, but in 2015 it was moved to its own, separate family: Pseudobistonidae.[1]
References
edit- ^ Rajaei, Hossein; Greve, Carola; Letsch, Harald; Stüning, Dieter; Wahlberg, Niklas; Minet, Joël; Misof, Bernhard (2015). "Advances in Geometroidea phylogeny, with characterization of a new family based on Pseudobiston pinratanai (Lepidoptera, Glossata)". Zoologica Scripta. 44 (4): 418–436. doi:10.1111/zsc.12108. S2CID 84153029.