Plexippica
Appearance
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Yponomeutidae |
| Genus: | Plexippica Meyrick, 1912 |
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Plexippica is a genus of moths found in Africa. It is placed incertae sedis in the family Yponomeutidae, though Mey, 2011 placed it in the family Pterolonchidae.[1] The type species is Plexippica verberata, and it was described by Meyrick in 1912.[1][2]
Species
[edit]- Plexippica verberata - Meyrick, 1912[1]
- Plexippica fuscinervosa - Mey, 2011[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Mey, Wolfram (2011). Basic pattern of Lepidoptera diversity in southwestern Africa. Esperiana Memoir 6. Schwanfeld: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. p. 191. ISBN 978-3-938249-02-4.
- ↑ Lewis, Jon; Sohn, Jae-Cheon (2015). "Genera incertae sedis". Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea I (Argyresthiidae, Attevidae, Praydidae, Scythropiidae, and Yponomeutidae). World Catalogue of Insects: Volume 12. Brill. p. 159. ISBN 978-90-04-26426-7.