Andraca Walker, 1865

Zolotuhin, Vadim V., 2012, Taxonomic remarks on Andraca Walker, 1865 (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) with descriptions of five new species, Zootaxa 3262, pp. 22-34 : 23

Andraca Walker, 1865

List of specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 581. Type-species: Andraca bipunctata Walker, 1865 , ibidem 32: 582, by monotypy.

The genus Andraca is a heterogeneous complex of species that are here grouped into two subgenera. One of these (Chrypathemola) is erected as new on the basis of morphological peculiarities as well as molecular data based on COI-5P (see below and Fig. 35 ).

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FIGURE 35. Cladogram for COI- 5 P with Kumura 2 Parameter distance Model. 1 — subgenus Chrypathemola Zolotuhin, subgen. nov., 2 — subgenus Andraca s. str.