Dicentria

Dicentria is a genus of moths of the family Notodontidae. The genus contains about 46 described species occurring from Mexico south to Bolivia and Paraguay. Its affinities to the North American genera Schizura and Oligocentria are not fully understood.[1]

Dicentria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Notodontidae
Subfamily: Heterocampinae
Genus: Dicentria
Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

Selected species

References

  1. Miller, James S.; Thiaucourt, Paul (November 1, 2011). "Diversity of Prominent Moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) in the Cloud Forests of Northeastern Ecuador, with Descriptions of 27 New Species". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 104 (6): 1033–1077. doi:10.1603/AN10141.


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