''Eremocossus'' is a genus of

moth 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 ...

s in the family

Cossidae The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description. Carpenter millers are nocturnal ...

first described by

George Hampson Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist. Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills ...

in 1893.

Species

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Eremocossus almeriana ''Eremocossus almeriana'' is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Josef J. de Freina and Thomas Joseph Witt in 1990. It is found in south-eastern Spain. References * Cossinae Moths described in 1990 Moths of Europe {{ ...

'' (de Freina & Witt, 1990) * ''

Eremocossus asema ''Eremocossus asema'' is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by de Pungeler in 1899. It is found in Turkmenistan and possibly Iran. References Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog Cossinae Moths described ...

'' (Püngeler, 1899) * ''

Eremocossus foedus ''Eremocossus foedus'' is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It was described by Charles Swinhoe in 1899. It is found in Spain. The wingspan is about 30 mm. Taxonomy A former subspecies, ''Eremocossus foedus almeriana'', from so ...

'' (Swinhoe, 1884) * ''

Eremocossus nubica ''Eremocossus nubica'' is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2008. It is found in Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, l ...

'' Yakovlev, 2008 * ''

Eremocossus vaulogeri ''Eremocossus vaulogeri'' is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Egypt, Oman, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and sout ...

'' (Staudinger, 1897)

References

External links

* Cossinae Cossidae genera {{Cossinae-stub