Latticed Heath - Taxonomy

Taxonomy

The current placement of clathrata in the genus Chiasmia follows from the revision by Scoble (2002) of the tribe Macariini, when he showed that true Semiothisa species were restricted to the Americas. There are a number of described subspecies. Molecular work (Õunap et al., 2011) has confirmed the placement of clathrata within Chiasmia.

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