Afrocelestis lochaea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Tineidae |
Genus: | Afrocelestis |
Species: | A. lochaea |
Binomial name | |
Afrocelestis lochaea (Meyrick, 1911) | |
Synonyms | |
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Afrocelestis lochaea is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was described in 1911 by Edward Meyrick and is found on the Seychelles. [1]
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Gonobombyx is a monotypic moth genus in the family Lasiocampidae. The genus was erected by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1893. Its single species, Gonobombyx angulata, described by the same author in the same year, is found in Cameroon.
Eois is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. The genus contains about 250 validly described species, most from the Neotropical region. Many species are still undescribed and the total number of species is estimated to be over a 1,000 in the Neotropical region alone. The genus was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818.
Coniostola is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Olethreutinae of the family Tortricidae.
Leguminivora is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Olethreutinae of the family Tortricidae.
Pseudimbrasia is a monotypic moth genus in the family Saturniidae described by Pierre Claude Rougeot in 1962. Its only species, Pseudimbrasia deyrollei, described by James Thomson in 1858, is found in the mid-latitudes of Africa.
Picardia orchatias is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Madagascar and South Africa. This species has a wingspan of 23mm
Megalorhipida leptomeres is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, La Réunion, Madagascar, the Seychelles, Oman and Yemen.
Protaphreutis borboniella is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is found on Réunion, Madagascar and Mauritius.
Glyphodes mascarenalis is a moth of the family Crambidae described by Joseph de Joannis in his book Descriptions de Lépidoptères nouveaux de l'ile Maurice in 1906. It is found in the Indian Ocean on the islands Comoros, Réunion, and Mauritius.
Scopula quintaria is a moth of the family Geometridae, first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1916. It occurs in Malawi, South Africa and Príncipe.
Simplicia extinctalis is a litter moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in most countries of subtropical Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia and from Ethiopia to South Africa, including some islands of the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean, as well as in Yemen.
Rhynchina obliqualis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vincenz Kollar in 1844. The type locality is Mussoorie, in the Indian Himalayas.
Maxera marchalii is a moth of the family Erebidae.
Scalidomia fetialis is a moth in the family Tineidae. It is found in West- and Central-Africa and on the Comoros.
The Myrmecozelinae are a subfamily of moth of the family Tineidae.
The Tineinae are a subfamily of moths of the family Tineidae.
The Hieroxestinae are a subfamily of moths of the family Tineidae.
The Dryadaulinae are a subfamily of moth of the family Tineidae.