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Dalaca
Sign in to saveDalaca is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 23 described species found throughout South America as far north as Panama. The larvae feed on grasses.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 24 inbound references to Dalaca, and connects out to Brazil, Chile and Argentina.
It is catalogued under topics including Exoporia genera, Hepialidae and Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist).
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- With media
- 18
- Family
- Hepialidae
- Collections
- GMNH, MHNCA, USNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hepialidae
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- taxon name
- Dalaca
- taxon rank
- genus
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Species
- Former species
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Dalaca is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 23 described species found throughout South America as far north as Panama. The larvae feed on grasses.
==Species== Dalaca chilensis - Chile Dalaca chiriquensis - Panama Dalaca cocama - Peru Dalaca crocatus - Chile Dalaca cuprifera - Peru Dalaca guarani - Brazil Dalaca katharinae - Brazil Dalaca laminata - Chile Dalaca manoa - Colombia Dalaca mummia - Brazil Dalaca niepelti - Ecuador Dalaca nigricornis - Chile Dalaca obliquestrigata - Peru Dalaca pallens - Chile Dalaca parafuscus - Chile Dalaca patriciae - Argentina Dalaca perkeo - Colombia Dalaca postvariabilis - Argentina Dalaca quadricornis - Argentina Dalaca stigmatica - Paraguay Dalaca usaque - Colombia Dalaca variabilis - Chile Dalaca vibicata - Ecuador
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dalaca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.