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| Genus: | Eremonidia Rawlins & J. S. Miller, 2008 |
| Species: | E. mirifica |
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| Eremonidia mirifica Rawlins and J. S. Miller, 2008 | |
Eremonidia is a monotypic moth genus of the family Notodontidae. Its only species, Eremonidia mirifica, is known from two mountain ranges in the south-western part of the Dominican Republic. Both the genus and species were first described by John E. Rawlins and James S. Miller in 2008.
Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.
Notodontidae is a family of moths with approximately 3,800 known species. Moths of this family are found in all parts of the world, but they are most concentrated in tropical areas, especially in the New World. The Thaumetopoeidae are sometimes included here as a subfamily.
The Dominican Republic is a country located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that are shared by two sovereign states. The Dominican Republic is the second-largest Caribbean nation by area at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi), and third by population with approximately 10 million people, of whom approximately three million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.
