Casandria

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Casandria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Casandria
Walker, 1857
Synonyms

Casandria is A moth genus of the family Erebidae. It originally was a monotypic genus in Nolctuidae containing one species, Casandria emittens ,with both the genus and species described by Francis Walker in 1857 from a specimen in Jamaica. [1] [2] [3] The taxonomic position of the genus was reevaluated and placed into in family Erebidae and merged with the genus Acanthodica. [4]

Species



References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku (June 24, 2019). "Casandria Walker, 1857". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Casandria​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Casandria Walker, 1857". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London . Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  4. ↑ Becker, Vitor O. (2022-12-30). "The taxonomic position of the Neotropical genus Casandria Walker, 1857, with new synonymies and combinations (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Catocalinae)". SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 50 (200): 749–754. doi:10.57065/shilap.268. ISSN   2340-4078.


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