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 | |
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.