Lythria (Microlythria subgen. nov.) venustata Staudinger, 1882 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): distribution and description of the female, with a brief review of the genus Author Makhov, I. A. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment, 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia Author Gorbunov, P. Yu. Institute of plant and animal ecology, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 th Marta Str. 202 / 3, Ekaterinburg 620144 Russia Author Lukhtanov, V. A. 0000-0002-3563-0139 Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment, 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia text Zootaxa 2024 2024-05-09 5448 1 29 48 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.1.2 1175-5326 11231079 A74BE92D-00DD-4761-99EE-B2F7412A5EC3 Lythria (Lythria) purpuraria ( Linnaeus, 1758 ) Pl. 2 : 4a–4i Phalaena (Geometra) purpuraria Linnaeus, 1758: 522 . TL: Europe. (ST in LSL) Distribution . Europe (from Spain and France to Estonia and Ukraine ), Russia (from Kaliningrad Province to Transbaikalia), Turkey , Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Iran , Kazakhstan , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , Tajikistan , Kyrgyzstan , Afghanistan , Northwestern China , Mongolia .