''Moyencharia'' is a genus 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 belonging to the family of

Cossidae The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family (biology), family of mostly large Miller (moth), miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description. ...

Metarbelidae The Metarbelidae are a family of the Cossoidea also called the carpenter or goat moths, and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Metarbelinae of the Cossidae. No synapomorphies are shared with the Cossidae based on adult morphology. The family Me ...

Distribution

The known species of this genus are found in

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Species

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Moyencharia herhausi ''Moyencharia herhausi'' is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in south-western Burkina Faso and probably south-eastern Mali. The habitat consists of a mosaic of wooded farmland and Sudanian woodland with pockets of dry and riparian forest ...

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Moyencharia joeli ''Moyencharia joeli'' is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in north-central and north-east central Nigeria and probably north-western Cameroon. The habitat consists of a mosaic of wooded farmland and drier peripheral semi-evergreen Guineo ...

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Moyencharia mineti ''Moyencharia mineti'' is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in southern Chad and probably also the Central African Republic. The habitat consists of a mosaic of riparian forests, open woodland and wooded floodplain grassland at low elev ...

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Moyencharia ochreicosta ''Moyencharia ochreicosta'' is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found from western Burkina Faso south through north-eastern and south-eastern Ghana to south-eastern and east-central Nigeria. It is probably also present in Togo and Benin. The h ...

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Moyencharia sommerlattei ''Moyencharia sommerlattei'' is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Guinea. The habitat consists of various forest types at low elevations. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one ...

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Moyencharia winteri ''Moyencharia winteri'' is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in south-western Sudan and the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The range probably extends into the Central African Republic. The habitat consists of ...

References

Metarbelinae Cossidae genera {{Metarbelinae-stub