''Pseudandraca'' 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 "unispec ...

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

Endromidae Endromidae is a family of moths. It was long considered to be a monotypic family, containing just one species, the Kentish glory, '' Endromis versicolora'', found throughout the Palaearctic regio The family now consists of several genera and abou ...

erected by Tamotsu Miyata in 1970. The genus was previously placed in the subfamily Prismostictinae of the family Bombycidae. Its only species, ''Pseudandraca gracilis'', was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1885. It is found in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Former species

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Pseudandraca flavamaculata ''Andraca flavamaculata'' is a moth of the family Endromidae. It is found in China (Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi) and Vietnam. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the ...

'' (J.K. Yang, 1995)

References

Endromidae Moths described in 1885 Monotypic moth genera {{Bombycoidea-stub