Casandria is A moth genus of the family Erebidae. It originally was a monotypic genus in Nolctuidae containing one species, Casandria emittens,with both the genus and species described by Francis Walker in 1857 from a specimen in Jamaica. The taxonomic position of the genus was reevaluated and placed into in family Erebidae and merged with the genus Acanthodica.
Species
- Casandria albiplena <small>(L.B. Prout, 1919)</small>
- Casandria cabra <small>(Dognin, 1894)</small>
- Casandria chiripa <small>(Dognin, 1894)</small>
- Casandria coelebs <small>(L.B. Prout, 1919)</small>
- Casandria daunus <small>(Druce)</small>
- Casandria drucei <small>(Dognin, 1889)</small>
- Casandria emittens <small>Walker, 1857</small>
- Casandria fassli <small>(Zerny, 1916)</small>
- Casandria fosteri <small>(Hampson, 1913)</small>
- Casandria frigida <small>(Jones, 1921)</small>
- Casandria grandis <small>(Schaus, 1894)</small>
- Casandria hages <small>(Druce, 1900)</small>
- Casandria lignaris <small>(Schaus, 1894)</small>
- Casandria penicillum <small>(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)</small>
- Casandria sinuilinea <small>(L. B. Prout, 1919)</small>
- Casandria splendens <small>(Druce, 1889)</small>
- Casandria xylinoides <small>(Schaus, 1894)</small>
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