Diadexia

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Diadexia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Crambinae
Tribe: incertae sedis
Genus: Diadexia
Turner, 1905 [1]

Diadexia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

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References

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