Dolecta

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Dolecta
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Dolecta

Herrich-Schäffer, 1854[1]
Type species
Dolecta scariosa[2]
Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
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Dolecta is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae. It is endemic to the Neotropical biogeographic region.[2]

Species[edit]

24 species are recognized in this genus, plus one more of uncertain taxonomic placement:[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dolecta​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Naydenov, A. E.; Yakovlev, R. V.; Penco, F. C.; Sinyaev, V. V. (2020). "New data on Neotropical Carpenter-Moths of Subfamily Hypoptinae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). II. A review of the genus Dolecta Herrich-Schäffer,[1854], with description of seventeen new species". Ecologica Montenegrina. 35: 82–114. doi:10.37828/em.2020.35.7.

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