Olepa
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| Olepa | |
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| Olepa sp. at Kerala, India | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Olepa Watson, 1980 |
| Type species | |
| Alope ocellifera Walker, 1855 | |
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Olepa is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was described by Watson in 1980. Most part of species occur in India and Sri Lanka, though one species was described from Israel. Its name is the anagram of Alope, the original preoccupied name of the genus.
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