Faeculoides
| Faeculoides | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Micronoctuini |
| Subtribe: | Magnina |
| Genus: | Faeculoides Fibiger, 2008 |
| Synonyms | |
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Faecula Fibiger, 2008 (non Slipinski & Lawrence, 1997: preoccupied) | |
Faeculoides is a genus of moths of the Erebidae family. Despite containing some long-known species, the genus' distinctness was noted only in 2008.
Initially and briefly, the genus was known as Faecula. That name was earlier given to a genus of cylindrical bark beetles, and the moth genus was soon renamed.
Species
Three species are presently placed here:
References
- Fibiger, M. 2008: Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae and Parachrostiinae. Zootaxa, 1867: 1-136. Abstract & excerpt
- Fibiger, M. 2008: A replacement name for Faecula Fibiger, 2008 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Micronoctuidae) Zootaxa, 1926: 1. Full text
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