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References
- Hacker, H. H. & Zilli, A. 2007. Revisional notes on the genus Thiacides Walker, 1855, with descriptions of Thiacidinae subfam. nov. and eleven species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). - Esperiana Memoir 3:179–246, pls. 21–30.
