Biology:Lemonia

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Short description: Genus of insects in the butterfly and moth order Lepidoptera

Lemonia
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Lemonia taraxaci
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Brahmaeidae
Genus: Lemonia
Hübner, [1820] 1816
Type species
Bombyx taraxaci
(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Crateronyx Duponchel, 1845

Lemonia is a genus of moths in the family Brahmaeidae (older classifications placed it in the separate family Lemoniidae.[1]

Species

A caterpillar of Lemonia sp.

References

  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

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q6521398 entry