Oricia (moth)

Oricia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Notodontidae
Tribe:	Dioptini
Genus:	Oricia Walker, 1854
Type species
Oricia truncata Walker, 1854

Oricia is a genus of moths of the family Notodontidae. It was described in 1854 by English entomologist Francis Walker and contains four species distributed in Central and South America.[1][2][3]

Species

This genus includes the following species:[1][2]

• Oricia hillmani Miller, 2009 – Ecuador
• Oricia homalochroa (Felder and Felder, 1874) – Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama
• Oricia phryganeata (Warren, 1907) – Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
• Oricia truncata Walker, 1854 – Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama

References

1. Schintlmeister, Alexander (2013). Notodontidae & Oenosandridae (Lepidoptera). World Catalogue of Insects. Vol. 11. Brill. p. 307. doi:10.1163/9789004259188. ISBN 9789004259188.
2. Miller, James S. (2009). "Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2009 (321). American Museum of Natural History: 102–113. doi:10.1206/321.1. hdl:2246/5978. ISSN 0003-0090.
3. Giusti, Alessandro (2003). "LepIndex - ORICIA". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 20 February 2024.