Biology:Faeculoides

Short description: Genus of moths

Faeculoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subtribe:	Magnina
Genus:	Faeculoides Fibiger, 2008
Synonyms
Faecula Fibiger, 2008 (non Slipinski & Lawrence, 1997: preoccupied)

Faeculoides is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2008. Despite containing some long-known species, the genus' distinctness was noted only in 2008.

Initially and briefly, the genus was known as Faecula. That name was earlier given to a genus of cylindrical bark beetles, and the moth genus was soon renamed.

Species

Three species are presently placed here:

• Faeculoides bifusa
• Faeculoides plumbifusa
• Faeculoides leucopis

References

• Fibiger, Michael (2008). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae and Parachrostiinae". Zootaxa 1867: 1–136. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01926p068.pdf. 
• Fibiger, Michael (2008). "A replacement name for Faecula Fibiger, 2008 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Micronoctuidae)". Zootaxa 1926: 1. http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01867p136f.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5429305 entry