- Maurica
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Maurica Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Subkingdom: Eumetazoa Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Division: Ditrysia Family: Arctiidae Subfamily: Arctiinae Tribe: Spilosomini Genus: Maurica
de Freina & Witt, 1984Type species Trichosoma breveti
Oberthür, 1882Species - M. breveti
- M. joiceyi
Maurica is a genus of moths in the Arctiidae family from North-Western Africa. Originally[1] one species more was included into the genus, M. bellieri (Lederer, 1855) from the Near East; but later[2] it was returned into the genus Ocnogyna.
Species
- Maurica breveti (Oberthür, 1882)
- Maurica breveti powelli (Oberthür, 1910)
- Maurica joiceyi (Talbot, 1928)
- Maurica joiceyi chneouri (Rungs, 1951)
- Maurica joiceyi monticola (Reisser, 1934)
References
- ^ de Freina, JJ & Witt, TJ 1984: Taxonomische Veränderungen bei den Bombyces und Sphinges Europas und Nordwestafrikas. Zwei neue Arctiidaegattungen den westpaläarktischen Faunenbereich: Watsonarctia gen.n. und Maurica gen.n. (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Entomofauna. Zeitschrift für Entomologie 5 (28): 323-334, Linz.
- ^ Dubatolov, VV 2004: Some generic changes in Arctiinae from South Eurasia with description of three new genera (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 35 (1/2): 73-83, colour plate IVa, Würzburg.
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