''Penicillaria'' is a

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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 of the family

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. The genus was erected by

Achille Guenée Achille Guenée (sometimes M.A. Guenée; 1 January 1809 – 30 December 1880) was a French lawyer and entomologist. Biography Achille Guenée was born in Chartres and died in Châteaudun. He was educated in Chartres, where he showed a very e ...

in 1852.

Species

*'' Penicillaria aureiplaga'' (Bethune-Baker, 1906) New Guinea *'' Penicillaria dinawa'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 New Guinea *'' Penicillaria dinawaensis'' (Bethune-Baker, 1906) New Guinea *'' Penicillaria dorsipuncta'' (Hampson, 1912) Singapore, Sundaland - New Guinea, Queensland *'' Penicillaria ethiopica'' (Hampson, 1920) South Africa *'' Penicillaria jocosatrix'' Guenée, 1852 Indo-Australian tropics, Hawaii (introduced) *'' Penicillaria ludatrix'' Walker, 1858 Sri Lanka *'' Penicillaria lineatrix'' Walker, 1858 Canara *'' Penicillaria maculata'' Butler, 1889 Oriental tropics, Sundaland, New Caledonia, Vanuatu *'' Penicillaria magnifica'' (Robinson, 1975) Fiji *'' Penicillaria meeki'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea, Bismarcks, Solomons, Fiji, Samoa *'' Penicillaria nigriplaga'' (Warren, 1914) New Guinea *'' Penicillaria nugatrix'' Guenée, 1852 India *'' Penicillaria plusioides'' (Walker, 1862) Oriental tropics, Sundaland, Bismarcks *'' Penicillaria pratti'' (Bethune-Baker, 1906) New Guinea *'' Penicillaria regalis'' (Prout, 1921) Amboina *'' Penicillaria rothschildi'' (Warren, 1914) New Guinea *'' Penicillaria simplex'' (Walker, 1865) Oriental tropics - New Guinea, Kuangtung

References

Euteliinae {{Euteliinae-stub