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Cerynea
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Collections
- MNHN
- Recorded in
- Madagascar
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- Cerynea omphisalis
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Cerynea is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae erected by Francis Walker in 1859.
==Etymology== Cerynea is possibly derived from the hills of Cerynea, where Hercules performed the third labour (the capturing of the Cerynean Hind).
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