''Eremocossus'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
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 Lepidopter ...
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
* ''
Eremocossus almeriana''
(de Freina & Witt, 1990)
* ''
Eremocossus asema''
(Püngeler, 1899)
* ''
Eremocossus foedus''
(Swinhoe, 1884)
* ''
Eremocossus nubica''
Yakovlev, 2008
* ''
Eremocossus vaulogeri''
(Staudinger, 1897)
References
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External links
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Cossinae
Cossidae genera
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