Mormogystia
Mormogystia | |
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Mormogystia brandstetteri (male) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Cossidae |
Subfamily: | Cossinae |
Genus: | Mormogystia Schoorl, 1990 |
Species | |
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Mormogystia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Diagnosis
[edit]Mormogystia is distinguished from all other Cossidae genera by having large silvery areas on the forewing.
Distribution
[edit]The genus consists of four species distributed in north Africa, the Levant, Arabian Peninsula and Kenya.
Species
[edit]- Mormogystia brandstetteri Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Yakovlev, 2011
- Mormogystia equatorialis (Le Cerf, 1933)
- Mormogystia proleuca (Hampson in Walsingham et Hampson, 1896)
- Mormogystia reibellii (Oberthür, 1876)
References
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