Lamoria

Lamoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Subfamily: Galleriinae
Tribe: Tirathabini
Genus: Lamoria
Walker, 1863 [1]
Type species
Lamoria planalis
Walker, 1863 [2]
Synonyms[3]

Hornigia Ragonot, 1885
Lammoria (lapsus)
Microcyttara Turner, 1913
Maraclea Walker, 1863
Tugela Ragonot, 1888

Lamoria is a genus of small moths belonging to the family Pyralidae.

Description

Palpi of male minute, whereas of female projecting about the length of head and downcurved at extremity. Maxillary palpi filiform. Frons with a conical tuft. Antennae simple. Fore wings of male with a large glandular swelling at base of costa below. Vein 3 from before angle of cell. Veins 4,5 from angle, which is much produced. Veins 8,9 stalked from veins 7. Veins 10,11 free. Female with vein 3 from angle of cell, which is not produced. Veins 4,5 stalked. Hind wings with open cell. Veins 2,3,4,5 at regular intervals. Vein 7 anastomosing with vein 8.[4]

Species

The former L. rufivena is now in Tirathaba.

References

  1. Lamoria at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
  2. Lamoria at The Global Lepidoptera Names Index, Natural History Museum
  3. See references in Savela (2009)
  4. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iv". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.



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