Maurica

Maurica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Subtribe:Spilosomina
Genus:Maurica
de Freina & Witt, 1984
Type species
Trichosoma breveti
Oberthür, 1882
Species

Maurica is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from North-Western Africa. Originally[1] one species more was included into the genus, M. bellieri (Lederer, 1855) from the Near East; but later[2] it was returned into the genus Ocnogyna.

Species

  • Maurica breveti (Oberthür, 1882)
    • Maurica breveti powelli (Oberthür, 1910)
  • Maurica joiceyi (Talbot, 1928)
    • Maurica joiceyi chneouri (Rungs, 1951)
    • Maurica joiceyi monticola (Reisser, 1934)

References

  1. ↑ de Freina, JJ & Witt, TJ 1984: Taxonomische Veränderungen bei den Bombyces und Sphinges Europas und Nordwestafrikas. Zwei neue Arctiidaegattungen den westpaläarktischen Faunenbereich: Watsonarctia gen.n. und Maurica gen.n. (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Entomofauna. Zeitschrift für Entomologie 5 (28): 323-334, Linz.
  2. ↑ Dubatolov, VV 2004: Some generic changes in Arctiinae from South Eurasia with description of three new genera (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 35 (1/2): 73-83, colour plate IVa, Würzburg.


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