Pimelephila

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Pimelephila
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Pyraustinae
Genus: Pimelephila
Tams, 1930 [1]
Species:
P. ghesquierei
Binomial name
Pimelephila ghesquierei
Tams, 1930

Pimelephila is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Pimelephila ghesquierei, is found in Benin, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Katanga, East Kasai, Equateur) and Ghana.

The larvae feed on Elaeis guineensis and Ancistrophyllum secundiflorum . [2]

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References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
  2. Afro Moths