Biology:Lampronia

Short description: Genus of moths

Lampronia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Prodoxidae
Genus:	Lampronia Stephens, 1829

Lampronia is a genus of moths of the family Prodoxidae.

Diversity

The genus has a Holarctic distribution and contains about twenty-five described species. There are additional undescribed species in North America, Japan and Iran.

Description

Adults are medium-sized and have a golden or dark ground color, although some are unicolored. The forewings usually have white or yellowish spots.

Biology

Most species are day-flying.

Lampronia corticella and Lampronia capitella are minor pests on raspberry (Rubus idaeus) and current (Ribes species).

Species

• Subgenus Lampronia
  • Lampronia aeneella
  • Lampronia aeripennella
  • Lampronia altaica
  • Lampronia argillella
  • Lampronia capitella
  • Lampronia corticella
  • Lampronia flavimitrella
  • Lampronia fuscatella
  • Lampronia intermediella
  • Lampronia luzella
  • Lampronia morosa
  • Lampronia novempunctata
  • Lampronia oregonella
  • Lampronia provectella (syn: Lampronia triangulifera)
  • Lampronia psychidella
  • Lampronia pubicornis
  • Lampronia quinquepunctata
  • Lampronia redimitella
  • Lampronia rupella
  • Lampronia russatella
  • Lampronia sakhalinella
  • Lampronia splendidella
  • Lampronia standfussiella
  • Lampronia stangei
  • Lampronia taylorella
• Subgenus Tanysaccus Davis, 1978
  • Lampronia aenescens
  • Lampronia humilis
  • Lampronia sublustris

References

• Lampronia at tolweb

Wikidata ☰ Q4042576 entry