Lymantica
Genus of moths
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Lymantica is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae. The genus was erected by Cyril Leslie Collenette in 1936.[1]
| Lymantica | |
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| Lymantria dispar | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Lymantriini |
| Genus: | Lymantica Collenette, 1936 |
Taxonomy
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index and Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms give this name as a synonym of Lymantria Hübner, [1819].[2][3] Afromoths lists it as a full genus with the species below.
Species listed by Afromoths
- Lymantica arrheta (Collenette, 1959)
- Lymantica canariensis (Kenrick, 1914)
- Lymantica castaneostriata (Kenrick, 1914)
- Lymantica cidariensis Kühne, 2010
- Lymantica hypobolimaea (Collenette, 1959)
- Lymantica leucophaes (Collenette, 1936)
- Lymantica malgassica (Kenrick, 1914)
- Lymantica phaeosericea (Mabille, 1884)
- Lymantica pruinosa (Butler, 1879)
- Lymantica radiata Griveaud, 1977
- Lymantica rufofusca (Mabille, 1900)
- Lymantica suarezia (Mabille, 1898)
- Lymantica velutina (Mabille, 1879)
- Lymantica xanthosoma (Saalmüller, 1884)