Biology:Amydria anceps

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Short description: Species of moth

Amydria anceps
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Amydria
Species:
A. anceps
Binomial name
Amydria anceps
Walsingham, 1914
Synonyms
  • Acrolophus socialis Beutelspacher, 1977

Amydria anceps is a moth of the family Acrolophidae. It is found in Mexico.[1]

It is unusual in that its caterpillars actually eat the discarded fungus culture grown by leaf-cutter ants, Atta mexicana; this moth is always (obligately) associated as a harmless guest on the nests of this ant species. [2] [3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Amydria anceps". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=129918. 
  2. Sanchez-Peña, Sergio R.; Donald R. Davis; Ulrich G. Mueller (2003). "A gregarious, mycophagous, myrmecophilous moth, Amydria anceps Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Acrolophidae), living in Atta mexicana (F. Smith)(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) spent fungal culture accumulations.". Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 105 (1): 186–194. 
  3. Lees, David C; Zilli, Alberto (2019). Moths: their biology, diversity and evolution. London: Natural History Museum, London. pp. 65. ISBN 978-0-565-09457-7. OCLC 1065351569. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1065351569. 


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