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''Eremanthus'' Less is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
s belonging to the sunflower family.Tropicos, ''Eremanthus'' Less.
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Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. ''Eremanthus'' species are eaten by the
larva A larva (; plural larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle. The ...
e of some
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species including ''
Dalcera abrasa ''Dalcera abrasa'' is a moth in the family Dalceridae. It is found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. The habitat consists of tropical wet, tropical moist, tropical dry, tropical premontane wet, ...
'' which has been recorded on ''E. glomerulatus''. ; SpeciesFlann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
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External links

* Sakamoto, H. T., et al. (2005
Quantitative HPLC analysis of sesquiterpene lactones and determination of chemotypes in ''Eremanthus seidelii'' MacLeish & Schumacher (Asteraceae).
''J. Braz. Chem. Soc.'' 16(6b) 1396-1401 accessed 27 March 2006 {{Taxonbar, from=Q5235928 Asteraceae genera Vernonieae Endemic flora of Brazil