''Hypocosmia'' is a genus of
snout moths. It was described by
Émile Louis Ragonot
Émile Louis Ragonot (12 October 1843 – 13 October 1895) was a French entomologist. In 1885, he became president of the ''Société entomologique de France''.
He named 301 new genera of butterflies and moths, mostly Pyralidae, pyralid moths.
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in 1891.
Species
* ''
Hypocosmia bimaculalis''
Dyar, 1914 (from Panama)
* ''
Hypocosmia definitalis''
Ragonot, 1891 (from Venezuela)
* ''
Hypocosmia floralis''
(Stoll in Cramer & Stoll, 1872) (from Suriname)
* ''
Hypocosmia pyrochroma''
(E. D. Jones, 1912) (from Brazil)
* ''
Hypocosmia rectilinealis''
Dyar, 1914 (from Panama)
References
*Lin Besaans (2011
"''Hypocosmia pyrochroma'' Jones, a leaf-tying moth released as a biocontrol of cat's claw creeper". - ARC-PPRI Fact Sheets on Invasive Alien Plants and their Control in South Africa. www.arc.agric.za
Chrysauginae
Pyralidae genera
Taxa named by Émile Louis Ragonot
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