Dolecta

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Dolecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Cossidae
Genus:
Dolecta

Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 [1]
Type species
Dolecta scariosa [2]
Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
Species

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Dolecta is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae. It is endemic to the Neotropical biogeographic region. [2]

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Species

24 species are recognized in this genus, plus one more of uncertain taxonomic placement: [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dolecta​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Naydenov, A. E.; Yakovlev, R. V.; Penco, F. C.; Sinyaev, V. V. (2020). "New data on Neotropical Carpenter-Moths of Subfamily Hypoptinae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). II. A review of the genus Dolecta Herrich-Schäffer,[1854], with description of seventeen new species". Ecologica Montenegrina. 35: 82–114. doi:10.37828/em.2020.35.7.


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