''Saccocera'' 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 in the family
Brachodidae
Brachodidae is a family of day-flying moths, commonly known as little bear moths, which contains about 135 species distributed around much of the world (Edwards et al. 1999). The relationships and status of the presently included genera are not w ...
.
Species
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Saccocera miangkabau
''Saccocera miangkabau'' is a moth in the family Brachodidae. It was described by Kallies in 2013. It is found on Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian ...
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Kallies, 2013
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Saccocera orpheus
''Saccocera orpheus'' is a moth in the family Brachodidae. It was described by Kallies in 2004. It is found on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sulawesi.
The wingspan is 16.5 mm for males and 24 mm for females. The forewings are blac ...
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(Kallies, 2004)
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Saccocera panaras
''Saccocera panaras'' is a moth in the family Brachodidae. It was described by Kallies in 2013. It is found in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independen ...
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Kallies, 2013
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Saccocera sauteri
''Saccocera sauteri'' is a moth in the family Brachodidae. It was described by Kallies in 2004. It is found in Taiwan.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. ...
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(Kallies, 2004)
References
* , 2013: New and little known Brachodidae from tropical Asia and Papua New Guinea (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea). ''Zootaxa'', 3641 (3): 241-259. Abstract
Brachodidae
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