''Callizzia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of scoopwing

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

s of the family

Uraniidae The Uraniidae are a family (biology), family of moths containing four subfamily (biology), subfamilies, 90 genera, and roughly 700 species. The family is distributed throughout the tropics of the Americas, Africa and Indo-Australia.Carter, David ...

. The genus was described by Packard in 1876. The adults' hindwings are sharply creased, forming a scoop shape. There are two

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

in the genus. The gray scoopwing moth (''Callizzia amorata'') is the type species of the genus, and the type specimen was collected in Albany, New York, in the United States.

Species

* '' Callizzia amorata'' Packard, 1876 – gray scoopwing moth * '' Callizzia certiorara'' Pearsall, 1906

References

Uraniidae {{Geometroidea-stub