''Jocara francesca'' is a species of
snout moth
The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family (biology), family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian Taxonomic rank, superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Cramb ...
in the genus ''
Jocara
''Jocara'' is a genus of Pyralidae, snout moths. It was described by Francis Walker (entomologist), Francis Walker in 1863.
Species
* ''Jocara abachuma''
* ''Jocara aidana''
* ''Jocara albiferalis''
* ''Jocara albimedialis''
* ''Pococera albimedi ...
''. The species was
first described by E. Dukinfield Jones in 1912. It is found in
French Guiana
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and
Brazil
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.
References
Moths described in 1912
Jocara
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