| Plexippica | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Yponomeutidae |
| Genus: | Plexippica Meyrick, 1912 |
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Plexippica is a genus of moths found in Africa. It is placed incertae sedis in the family Yponomeutidae, though Mey, 2011 placed it in the family Pterolonchidae.1 The type species is Plexippica verberata, and it was described by Meyrick in 1912.12
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References
- Mey, Wolfram (2011). Basic pattern of Lepidoptera diversity in southwestern Africa. Esperiana Memoir 6. Schwanfeld: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. p. 191. ISBN 978-3-938249-02-4.
- Lewis, Jon; Sohn, Jae-Cheon (2015). "Genera incertae sedis". Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea I (Argyresthiidae, Attevidae, Praydidae, Scythropiidae, and Yponomeutidae). World Catalogue of Insects: Volume 12. Brill. p. 159. ISBN 978-90-04-26426-7.