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Leptaroa
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Leptaroa

Leptaroa is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1910.

Leptaroa is seen as a synonym of Chrysocyma Hampson, 1905 by The Global Lepidoptera Names Index and Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. The list below comes from Afromoths.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Leptaroa fulvicolora

speciesLeptaroa fulvicolora

Leptaroa paupera

speciesLeptaroa paupera

Leptaroa jordani

speciesLeptaroa jordani

Leptaroa ochricoloria

speciesLeptaroa ochricoloria

Leptaroa deleta

speciesLeptaroa deleta

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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 642865.