Casandria
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Erebinae |
| Genus: | Casandria Walker, 1857 |
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Casandria is A moth genus of the family Erebidae. It originally was a monotypic genus in Nolctuidae containing one species, Casandria emittens,with both the genus and species described by Francis Walker in 1857 from a specimen in Jamaica.[1][2][3] The taxonomic position of the genus was reevaluated and placed into in family Erebidae and merged with the genus Acanthodica.[4]
Species
- Casandria albiplena (L.B. Prout, 1919)
- Casandria cabra (Dognin, 1894)
- Casandria chiripa (Dognin, 1894)
- Casandria coelebs (L.B. Prout, 1919)
- Casandria daunus (Druce)
- Casandria drucei (Dognin, 1889)
- Casandria emittens Walker, 1857
- Casandria fassli (Zerny, 1916)
- Casandria fosteri (Hampson, 1913)
- Casandria frigida (Jones, 1921)
- Casandria grandis (Schaus, 1894)
- Casandria hages (Druce, 1900)
- Casandria lignaris (Schaus, 1894)
- Casandria penicillum (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
- Casandria sinuilinea (L. B. Prout, 1919)
- Casandria splendens (Druce, 1889)
- Casandria xylinoides (Schaus, 1894)
References
- ^ Savela, Markku (June 24, 2019). "Casandria Walker, 1857". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Casandria". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
- ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Casandria Walker, 1857". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
- ^ Becker, Vitor O. (2022-12-30). "The taxonomic position of the Neotropical genus Casandria Walker, 1857, with new synonymies and combinations (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Catocalinae)". SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 50 (200): 749–754. doi:10.57065/shilap.268. ISSN 2340-4078.