''Gandhara'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s in the subfamily
Arctiinae
The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...
. The genus was erected by
Frederic Moore in 1878.
Most species were previously placed in the genus ''
Eilema''.
Species
* ''
Gandhara serva''
(Walker, 1854)
* ''
Gandhara vietnamica''
Dubatolov, 2012
References
*
Lithosiina
Moth genera
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