Mapeta
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- "Pyralopsis" redirects here. For the grass moth genus invalidly named thus by Dognin in 1905, see NeobanepaNeobanepaNeobanepa is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family.-Species:*Neobanepa macrogona -References:*...
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Mapeta is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of moths
Moths
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belonging to the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Pyralidae
Pyralidae
The Pyralidae or snout moths are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many classifications, the grass moths are included in the Pyralidae as a subfamily, making the combined group one of the largest families in the Lepidoptera...
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Species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
include:
- Mapeta cynorusa Druce, 1895
- Mapeta omphephora Dyar, 1914
- Mapeta schausi Druce, 1895
- Mapeta xanthomelas Walker, 1863