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Allotoma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Allotoma Roepke, 1944
Species:	A. cornifrons
Binomial name
Allotoma cornifrons Roepke, 1944

Allotoma is a genus of moths in the superfamily Bombycoidea. The only species in the genus is Allotoma cornifrons, found in Borneo, Malaysia, and Sumatra.

The puzzling genus has been shuffled between the Notodontidae and Lymantriidae families without certainty of its correct classification. Holloway ruled out Noctuoidea and hypothesized that it may belong in the Bombycoidea superfamily without placing it more precisely.

References

1. Holloway, J. D. "TRIBE LYMANTRIINI". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 27 November 2014.

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database https://web.archive.org/web/20120826132801/http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Animalia/Allotoma_Genus.asp

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