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Lineodes

Lineodes is a genus of snout moths of the subfamily Spilomelinae in the family Crambidae. The genus was described by Achille Guenée in 1854, with Lineodes hieroglyphalis as the type species.

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Lineodes
Lineodes integra
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Spilomelinae
Tribe: Lineodini
Genus: Lineodes
Guenée, 18541
Synonyms
  • Ciraphorus Dyar, 1910
  • Scoptonoma Zeller, 1873

Lineodes is a genus of snout moths of the subfamily Spilomelinae in the family Crambidae. The genus was described by Achille Guenée in 1854, with Lineodes hieroglyphalis as the type species.2

The genus is mostly Neotropical and southern Nearctic in distribution (with the exception of Lineodes longipes, described from Sumatra) and currently comprises 38 species.1

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References

  1. Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas; Schouten, Rob; Li, Houhun; Trofimova, Tatiana; Solis, M. Alma; De Prins, Jurate; Speidel, Wolfgang (2003–2020). "Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)". www.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  2. Guenée, M. Achille (1854). "Deltoïdes et Pyralites". In Boisduval, Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de; Guenée, M. Achille (eds.). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères 8 8. Paris: Roret. pp. 1–448.
  3. Landry, Bernard (2016). "Taxonomic revision of the Spilomelinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae s. l.) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador". Revue suisse de zoologie. 123 (2): 315–399.