Cacotherapia demeridalis
species of insect

Cacotherapia demeridalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by William Schaus in 1924, and is known from Guatemala.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5016089. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1924.
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