Lemonia

Genus of insects in the butterfly and moth order Lepidoptera

Lemonia
Lemonia taraxaci
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Brahmaeidae
Genus: Lemonia
Hübner, [1820] 1816
Type species
Bombyx taraxaci
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.
  • Lemonia balcanica (Herrich-Schäffer, 1847)
  • Lemonia ballioni (Christoph, 1888)
  • Lemonia beirutica Daniel, 1965
  • Lemonia dumi (Linnaeus, 1761)
  • Lemonia pauli Staudinger, 1894
  • Lemonia peilei Rothschild, 1921
    • Lemonia peilei farsica Wiltshire, 1946
    • Lemonia peilei klapperichi Wiltshire, 1961 (Turkmenistan)
    • Lemonia peilei peilei
    • Lemonia peilei talhouki Wiltshire, 1952
  • Lemonia philopalus Donzel, 1842
  • Lemonia pia Püngeler, 1902
    • Lemonia pia friedeli Witt, 1979
    • Lemonia pia pia
  • Lemonia ponticus (Aurivillius, 1894)
  • Lemonia sacrosancta Püngeler, 1902
  • Lemonia sardanapalus Staudinger, 1887 (Turkmenistan)
  • Lemonia strigata Rebel, 1910
  • Lemonia taraxaci (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
  • Lemonia vallantini Oberthür, 1890

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
  • Fauna Europaea
Taxon identifiers
Lemonia


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