Borboryctis
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Family
- Gracillariidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Gracillariidae
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- taxon name
- Borboryctis
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Borboryctis euryae
- Commons category
- Borboryctis
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Borboryctis is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
==Etymology== The genus name is derived from the Greek borbos (meaning fleshy, swollen) and oryctis (digger, miner).
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