''Carales'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
moths
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...
in the family
Erebidae. The genus was erected by
Francis Walker in 1855.
Species
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Carales astur''
(Cramer, 777
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Carales arizonensis''
(Rothschild, 1909)
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Carales maculicollis''
Walker, 1855
References
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Phaegopterina
Moth genera
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