Lamoria

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Lamoria
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Lamoria clathrella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Subfamily: Galleriinae
Tribe: Tirathabini
Genus: Lamoria
Walker, 1863 [1]
Type species
Lamoria planalis
Walker, 1863 [2]
Synonyms [3]
  • HornigiaRagonot, 1885
  • Lammoria( lapsus )
  • MicrocyttaraTurner, 1913
  • MaracleaWalker, 1863
  • TugelaRagonot, 1888

Lamoria is a genus of small moths belonging to the family Pyralidae.

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Description

The palpi of the male are minute, whereas those of the female project about the length of head and are downcurved at their extremity. Maxillary palpi filiform. Frons with a conical tuft. Antennae simple. Forewings of male with a large glandular swelling at base of costa below. Vein 3 from before angle of cell. Veins 4 and 5 from angle, which is much produced. Veins 8 and 9 stalked from vein 7. Veins 10 and 11 free. Female with vein 3 from angle of cell, which is not produced. Veins 4 and 5 stalked. Hindwings with open cell. Veins 2, 3, 4 and 5 at regular intervals. Vein 7 anastomosing (fusing) with vein 8. [4]

Species

The former L. rufivena is now Tirathaba rufivena .

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References

  1. ↑ Lamoria at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
  2. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Lamoria". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved 26 November 2012.
  3. ↑ See references in Savela (2009)
  4. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1896). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume IV. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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