Lemonia vallantini

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Lemonia vallantini
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Brahmaeidae
Genus: Lemonia
Species:
L. vallantini
Binomial name
Lemonia vallantini
Oberthür, 1890

Lemonia vallantini is a species of moth of the family Brahmaeidae (older classifications placed it in Lemoniidae). [1] It is found in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

The wingspan is 24–27 mm. The moth flies from October to January depending on the location.

The larvae feed on Asteraceae species.

Sources

  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


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