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Pericyma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1851.

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Pericyma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1851.

==Species== Pericyma albidens (Walker, 1865) southern India Pericyma albidentaria (Freyer, 1842) Greece, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kasakhstan, from (Asia Minor, Middle East) - Afghanistan, Turkestan Pericyma andrefana (Viette, 1988) Madagascar Pericyma atrifusa (Hampson, 1902) Burkina Faso, Togo, Nigeria, Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, South Africa, Namibia Pericyma basalis (Saalmüller, 1891) Madagascar, Reunion Pericyma caffraria (Möschler, 1884) South Africa Pericyma cruegeri (Butler, 1886) Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, New Guinea, Queensland Pericyma deducta (Walker, [1858]) South Africa Pericyma detersa (Walker, 1865) northern India, Pakistan Pericyma glaucinans (Guenée, 1852) Saudi Arabia, India (Silhet, Punjab), Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Java, Philippines Pericyma griveaudi (Laporte, 1973) Pericyma madagascana Hacker, 2016 Madagascar Pericyma mauritanica Hacker & Hausmann, 2010 Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso Pericyma mendax (Walker, [1858]) Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Congo, Zaire, Botswana, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa, Namibia, Madagascar, Mauritius Pericyma metaleuca Hampson, 1913 Arabia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania Pericyma minyas (Fawcett, 1916) Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania Pericyma polygramma Hampson, 1913 Pericyma pratti (Kenrick, 1917) Madagascar Pericyma scandulata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) Pericyma schreieri Hacker, 2016 Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania Pericyma signata Brandt, 1939 Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal Pericyma squalens Lederer, 1855 Turkey, Arabia, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Tajikistan Pericyma subbasalis Hacker, 2016 Taiwan Pericyma subtusplaga Berio, 1984 Kenya Pericyma umbrina (Guenée, 1852) India, Kenya, Somalia, Namibia, South Africa Pericyma viettei (Berio, 1955) Madagascar Pericyma vinsonii (Guenée, 1862) Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion

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