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Casandria is A moth genus of the family Erebidae. It originally was a monotypic genus in Nolctuidae containing one species, Casandria emittens,with both the genus and species described by Francis Walker in 1857 from a specimen in Jamaica. The taxonomic position of the genus was reevaluated and placed into in family Erebidae and merged with the genus Acanthodica.

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

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Parent taxon
Noctuidae
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genus
taxon name
Casandria
taxonomic type
Casandria emittens
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Casandria is A moth genus of the family Erebidae. It originally was a monotypic genus in Nolctuidae containing one species, Casandria emittens,with both the genus and species described by Francis Walker in 1857 from a specimen in Jamaica. The taxonomic position of the genus was reevaluated and placed into in family Erebidae and merged with the genus Acanthodica.

== Species == Casandria albiplena (L.B. Prout, 1919) Casandria cabra (Dognin, 1894) Casandria chiripa (Dognin, 1894) Casandria coelebs (L.B. Prout, 1919) Casandria daunus (Druce) Casandria drucei (Dognin, 1889) Casandria emittens Walker, 1857 Casandria fassli (Zerny, 1916) Casandria fosteri (Hampson, 1913) Casandria frigida (Jones, 1921) Casandria grandis (Schaus, 1894) Casandria hages (Druce, 1900) Casandria lignaris (Schaus, 1894) Casandria penicillum (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) Casandria sinuilinea (L. B. Prout, 1919) Casandria splendens (Druce, 1889) Casandria xylinoides (Schaus, 1894)

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