Lemonia beirutica

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Lemonia beirutica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Brahmaeidae
Genus: Lemonia
Species:
L. beirutica
Binomial name
Lemonia beirutica
Daniel, 1965

Lemonia beirutica is a species of moth of the family Brahmaeidae (older classifications placed it in Lemoniidae). [1] It was described by Franz Daniel in 1965. The range includes Israel and Lebanon. [2]

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References

  1. Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara A (2018) A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236
  2. BOLD Systems - Taxonomy Browser