''Mapeta'' 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 moths belonging to the

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Pyralidae The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyralida ...

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include: * '' Mapeta cynosura'' Druce, 1895''Biologia Centrali-Americana''
/ref> * '' Mapeta omphephora'' Dyar, 1914 * '' Mapeta schausi'' Druce, 1895 * '' Mapeta xanthomelas'' Walker, 1863

References

* Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), and see references in Savela (2011)

External links

* (2011): Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' &ndash
''Mapeta''
Version of 23 February 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2011. * Pyralinae Pyralidae genera {{Pyralinae-stub