Chilopionea

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Chilopionea
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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.

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Pyraustinae Subfamily of moths

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.

References

  1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-10-11.