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Cactoblastis
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Cactoblastis

Cactoblastis is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1901 and is known from Argentina, Peru, and Brazil.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Cactus Moth

speciesCactoblastis cactorum

Cactoblastis doddi

speciesCactoblastis doddi

Cactoblastis ronnai

speciesCactoblastis ronnai

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 174588.