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Udeoides

Udeoides is a genus of snout moths of the subfamily Spilomelinae in the family Crambidae. The genus was described by Koen Maes in 2006 and distinguished from the related genus Udea. All six species are distributed in the Afrotropical realm.

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Udeoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Tribe: Udeini
Genus: Udeoides
Maes, 20061

Udeoides is a genus of snout moths of the subfamily Spilomelinae in the family Crambidae. The genus was described by Koen Maes in 2006 and distinguished from the related genus Udea.2 All six species are distributed in the Afrotropical realm.13

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  1. Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas; Schouten, Rob; Li, Houhun; Trofimova, Tatiana; Solis, M. Alma; De Prins, Jurate; Speidel, Wolfgang (2003–2020). "Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)". www.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  2. Maes, Koen V. N. (2006). "Udeoides gen. n., a new genus of Spilomelinae from Africa (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae)". Belgian Journal of Entomology. 8 (2): 127–137.
  3. Maes, Koen V. N. (2019). "Description of four new species of Crambidae from the Afrotropical region (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae)" (PDF). Metamorphosis. 30: 46–50.