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Placosaris

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Placosaris is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Pyraustinae of the family Crambidae. It is placed in the tribe Pyraustini.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyCrambidae
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Placosaris is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Pyraustinae of the family Crambidae. It is placed in the tribe Pyraustini.

The genus currently comprises 25 species, which are exclusively distributed in the Indomalayan realm and New Guinea. A taxonomic revision from 1970 covers the species distributed in Temperate East Asia.

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