Parabraxas

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Parabraxas
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Epicopeiidae
Genus: Parabraxas
Leech, 1897
Synonyms
  • Oberthüria
  • OberthueriaLeech, 1897 (preocc. Staudinger, 1892)
  • MethystriaSeitz, 1912
  • ThuriaChu & Zhu, 1981

Parabraxas is a genus of moths in the family Epicopeiidae. [1]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Parabraxas". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 27, 2018.


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