''Betroka'' is a
genus
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of
insect
Insects (from Latin ') are Hexapoda, hexapod invertebrates of the class (biology), class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (Insect morphology#Head, head, ...
s in the family
Depressariidae
Depressariidae is a family of moths. It was formerly treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.
Subfamilies
Depressariidae consists of ten subfamilies:
* Acriinae ...
from
Madagascar
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.
There is only one species in this genus: ''Betroka jacobsella''
Viette, 1955.
De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2015. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (14-Feb.-2015)
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Publication
*Viette, P. 1955a. Nouveaux Tineoidea (s.l.) de Madagascar (Lep.). - Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 123(1954):75–114.
References
Ethmiinae
Taxa named by Pierre Viette
Moth genera
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