Biology:Loxmaionia

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Short description: Genus of moths

Loxmaionia
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Tribe: Margaroniini
Genus: Loxmaionia
Schaus, 1913[1]
Species:
L. megale
Binomial name
Loxmaionia megale
Schaus, 1913

Loxmaionia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Loxmaionia megale, which is found in Costa Rica.

The wingspan is about 49 mm. The forewings are dark greyish brown with interrupted basal and antemedial whitish lines. There is a small white spot in the cell medially and a similar short streak below the cell, as well as an oblique whitish line on the discocellular and an interrupted line below it to the inner margin. The hindwings are semihyaline white with a fuscous-grey shade on the inner margin.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q6694290 entry