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Caphys
Sign in to saveCaphys is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863, who designated the type species as Caphys bilinea, a junior synonym for Caphys bilineata. Further information on the creature can be done through BugGuide where one can easily identify insects, spiders and species from their kin that habituate across the United States and Canada.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Collections
- USNM, YPM
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Guadeloupe, Mexico
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- Caphys
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- genus
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Caphys is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863, who designated the type species as Caphys bilinea, a junior synonym for Caphys bilineata. Further information on the creature can be done through BugGuide where one can easily identify insects, spiders and species from their kin that habituate across the United States and Canada.
==Species== Caphys arizonensis Munroe, 1970 Caphys bilineata (Stoll, [1781]) Caphys dubia Warren, 1891 Caphys eustelechalis Dyar, 1914 Caphys fovealis Hampson, 1897 Caphys pallida Hampson, 1897 Caphys subrosealis Walker, [1866] Caphys subsordidalis Dyar, 1914
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