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| Genus: | Phragmataecia Newman, 1950 |
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Phragmataecia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae. Members of this genus are found throughout the world apart from North America.
Members of this genus are generally medium-sized with very long abdomens, especially in females, and long bipectinate antennae. In males the length of pecten abruptly shortens to the distal part of tip, while in females pecten length is short to the tip of antenna as near invisible papilla. Coloration is white to black with unexpressed wing patterns except small black dots between the vein of the forewing in females. [1]
The genus consists of 39 species distributed in the Old World excluding the Papuan and Australian ranges.
The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description. Carpenter millers are nocturnal Lepidoptera found worldwide, except the Southeast Asian subfamily Ratardinae, which is mostly active during the day.
Phragmataecia castaneae, the reed leopard or giant borer, is a moth of the family Cossidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1790. It is found in central and southern Europe, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, north-western Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, India, Lebanon, Turkey, western China, south-western Siberia, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
Mormogystia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Meharia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Phragmataecia cinnamomea is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Taiwan and southern China.
Phragmataecia andarana is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Namibia and South Africa.
Phragmataecia gurkoi is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in north-western Pakistan.
Phragmataecia fuscifusa is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
Phragmataecia innominata is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi.
Phragmataecia irrorata is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi.
Phragmataecia minor is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Bangladesh, China (Lingping) and possibly Myanmar.
Phragmataecia pacifica is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Russia, the Caucasus and Dagestan.
Phragmataecia parvipuncta is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Phragmataecia psyche is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Benin, Niger and Senegal.
Phragmataecia sericeata is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Ghana and Nigeria.
Phragmataecia terebrifer is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher and is found in India.
The Zeuzerinae are a subfamily of the family Cossidae.
Assegaj is a monotypic genus of moths in the family Cossidae. Its sole species is Assegaj clenchi, which is found in Cameroon, the Republic of Congo and Nigeria.
Duomitus is a monotypic moth genus in the family Cossidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. Its only species, Duomitus ceramicus, described by Francis Walker in 1865, is found in Yunnan in China and from southern India and Malaysia to Sumatra, Ceram and New Guinea.
Yakudza vicarius is a moth in the family Cossidae and the only species in the genus Yakudza. It was described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in China, Russia and Japan. The habitat consists of nemoral forests.
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