''Omochroa'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

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 ...

genus in the subfamily

Arctiinae The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...

. Its only species, ''Omochroa spurca'', was described from

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. Both the genus and the species were first described by

Jules Pierre Rambur Jules Pierre Rambur (21 July 1801 – 10 August 1870) was a French entomologist. Rambur was born in Chinon. He studied the insect fauna of Corsica and Andalusia. He was the author of ''Histoire naturelle des insectes'' (1842) amongst other works ...

in 1866. The type was not saved. The species has affinity with '' Coscinia romei'' Sagarra, 1924 (Toulgoët, 1981).

References

*Toulgoët, H. de (1981). "Les types des arctiides décrites par le Docteur P. Rambur épidoptères Arctiidae. ''Alexanor''. 12 (3): 129–131. Paris. * Arctiini Monotypic moth genera Taxa named by Jules Pierre Rambur Moths of Europe {{Arctiinae-stub