Casandria
Genus of moths
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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]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Erebinae |
| Genus: | Casandria Walker, 1857 |
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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)
