Dicentria

Dicentria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Notodontidae
Subfamily: Heterocampinae
Genus: Dicentria
Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

Dicentria is a genus of moths of the Notodontidae family. The genus contains about 46 described species occurring from Mexico south to Bolivia and Paraguay. Its affinities to the North American genera Schizura and Oligocentria are not fully understood.[1]

Selected species

References

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