Chilopionea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Crambidae |
Subfamily: | Pyraustinae |
Genus: | Chilopionea Munroe, 1964 [1] |
Species: | C. postcuneifera |
Binomial name | |
Chilopionea postcuneifera Munroe, 1964 | |
Chilopionea is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Chilopionea postcuneifera, which is found in Peru.
Pyraustinae is a large subfamily of the lepidopteran family Crambidae, the crambid snout moths. It currently includes over 1,400 species; most of them tropical but some found in temperate regions including both North America and Europe.