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Cactoblastis

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Cactoblastis is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1901 and is known from Argentina, Peru, and Brazil.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyPyralidae

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Family
Pyralidae
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Recorded in
Netherlands

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Parent taxon
Pyralidae
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Cactoblastis cactorum moth female.jpg
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Cactoblastis
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Cactoblastis is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1901 and is known from Argentina, Peru, and Brazil.

==Species== Cactoblastis bucyrus Dyar, 1922 Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg, 1885) – South American cactus moth Cactoblastis doddi Heinrich, 1939 Cactoblastis mundelli Heinrich, 1939 Cactoblastis ronnai (Brèthes, 1920)

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