Nosphidia

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| taxon = Nosphidia paradoxa

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Nosphidia is a monotypic moth genus in the family Carposinidae.{{cite web |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/a1bfd4d3a99f95c29115cc12a080f0a6 |title=Species Details: Nosphidia paradoxa Diakonoff, 1982 |website=Catalogue of Life |accessdate=29 July 2018}} It contains the single species Nosphidia paradoxa, which is found in Sri Lanka. Both the genus and the species were first described in 1982, by Alexey Diakonoff, a Russian–Dutch entomologist who specialised in Microlepidoptera.{{LepIndex |id=117302 |name=Nosphidia paradoxa |accessdate=May 11, 2018}}

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  • {{cite journal |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Arctiidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Arctiidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |date=2023 |publisher=Natural History Museum, London|doi=10.5519/s93616qw }}

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Category:Carposinidae

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