Maurica

Maurica
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, 1984
Type species
Trichosoma breveti
Oberthür, 1882
Species
  • 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.