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Prodoxoides

Prodoxoides asymmetra is a moth of the family Prodoxidae. It is found in the Valdivian temperate rain forest and humid Nothofagus-Chusqua forest along the border of Chile and Argentina. It is the only known Prodoxidae species in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Prodoxoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Prodoxidae
Genus: Prodoxoides
Nielsen & Davis, 1985
Species:
P. asymmetra
Binomial name
Prodoxoides asymmetra
Nielsen & Davis, 1985

Prodoxoides asymmetra is a moth of the family Prodoxidae. It is found in the Valdivian temperate rain forest and humid Nothofagus-Chusqua forest along the border of Chile (Osorno Province) and Argentina (Río Negro Province). It is the only known Prodoxidae species in the Southern Hemisphere.

The wingspan is 9–13 mm.1

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