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Anomoses

Anomoses hylecoetes is a species of primitive hepialoid moth endemic to Queensland and New South Wales, Australia . It is the only species in its genus Anomoses, which is the only genus in the family Anomosetidae.

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Anomoses hylecoetes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Clade: Myoglossata
Clade: Neolepidoptera
Infraorder: Exoporia
Superfamily: Hepialoidea
Family: Anomosetidae
Turner, 1922
Genus: Anomoses
Turner, 1916
Species:
A. hylecoetes
Binomial name
Anomoses hylecoetes
Turner, 1916

Anomoses hylecoetes is a species of primitive hepialoid moth endemic to Queensland and New South Wales, Australia .12 It is the only species in its genus Anomoses, which is the only genus in the family Anomosetidae.34

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References

  1. N. P. Kristensen (1999). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.
  2. E. S. Nielsen, G. S. Robinson & D. L. Wagner (2000). "Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera)". Journal of Natural History. 34 (6): 823–878. doi:10.1080/002229300299282. S2CID 86004391.
  3. Kristensen, N.P. (1978). Observations on Anomoses hylecoetes (Anomosetidae), with a key to the hepialoid families (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Steenstrupia, 5: 1-19
  4. "Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
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