Nemacerota is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Thyatirinae of the Drepanidae. It was first described by George Hampson in 1893.[1]

Nemacerota
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Subfamily: Thyatirinae
Genus: Nemacerota
Hampson, 1893
Synonyms
  • Togaria Matsumura, 1921
  • Microthyatira Werny, 1966

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References

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  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Nemacerota​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 11 July 2018.  
  • Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. p. 185 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Laszlo, Gy. M.; G. Ronkay; L. Ronkay & T. Witt, 2007, Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Band 13: 1-683 [1]
  • Pan, Z. et al. 2014: A new species of Nemacerota Hampson, [1893] (Lepidoptera, Thyatiridae) from Tibet, China. Zootaxa 3754
  • Saldaitis, A., Ivinskis, P., Rimsaite, J., Borth, R. 2014: Two new Nemacerota Hampson, [1893] (Lepidoptera, Thyatiridae) taxa from China. Entomofauna, Suppl. 17: 3–13.