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''Osrhoes'' is a
monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...
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 ...
genus of the family
Palaeosetidae The Palaeosetidae or miniature ghost moths are a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera contained within the superfamily Hepialoidea. Taxonomy and systematics The Palaeosetidae are a primitive family of Hepialoidea with four currently reco ...
. Its only species, ''Osrhoes coronta'', is only known from Colombia. Both the genus and species were first described by
Herbert Druce Herbert Druce, FLS (14 July 1846, in London – 11 April 1913, in London) was an English entomologist. His collections were acquired by Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), Osbert Salvin (1835–1898), and James John Joicey (1870–1932) b ...
in 1900.Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera)


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Hepialoidea Monotypic moth genera Taxa named by Hamilton Herbert Druce Exoporia genera Moths of South America {{Hepialoidea-stub