Callipia parrhasiata, Guenee, 1858, Guenee, 1858

Brehm, Gunnar, 2018, Revision of the genus Callipia Guenée, 1858 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), with the description of 15 new taxa, European Journal of Taxonomy 404, pp. 1-54 : 29

The parrhasiata group

This group comprises most species; I acknowledge here 12 taxa at species level with one of them comprising two geographically separated subspecies ( C. wojtusiaki sp. nov.). Most species have conspicuous rosy or pink wing bases, but in four species (distributed from central Peru to northern Argentina) the base colour is more intensive and ranges from orange to red. The rosy/ pink species are distributed from Colombia to Bolivia. Unlike in the vicinaria group, there is no pronounced sexual dimorphism, but females are considerably larger than males. Unfortunately, the male genitalia only offer very limited diagnostic characters and DNA barcoding in combination with distributional data will sometimes be the only reliable way of distinguishing closely related species.