Limnaecia

Limnaecia sp.

Limnaecia is a genus of butterflies of the family splendor butterfly ( Cosmopterigidae ).

Features

The representatives of the genus are fairly large moths. The head is covered with tight -fitting scales. The labial palps are very long, slender and bent back. The forewings are lanceolate and have a pointed apex. The hind wings are plentiful half as wide as the front wings.

In the males, the Brachia are very asymmetric. The right brachium is long and pointed and strongly sclerotized. It is 2.5 times as long as the left. The Valven are concave and have a short and rounded cucullus. Valve the right is wider at the base. The Valvellae are strongly asymmetric. The left Valvella is spatulate and longer than the Valve. The tip is provided with a field short needles. The right Valvella is sclerotized short and curved and strong. It is fused with the right Valve. The aedeagus is short and tapers to the tip. The proximal portion is bulbous.

In females, the papillae are fused anal and only slightly sclerotized. The apophyses are very long and sclerotized vigorous and strong. The sterigma is tubular, slightly curved and sclerotized. The ductus bursae slightly tapering towards corpus bursae, the distal half is sclerotized. The corpus bursae is provided with two ovate and short needled Signa.

Dissemination

The genus is distributed worldwide.

Biology

The caterpillars eat the type species in the marrow and in the flowers of cattail ( Typha ).

System

The type species of the genus is Limnaecia phragmitella and comes as a single species in Europe. After Sinev 2002 include 93 species to the genus Limnaecia. Several dozen species have been described from tropical regions, most of which are probably not congeneric with the type species Limnaecia phragmitella.

  • Limnaecia acontophora Meyrick, 1922 ( Philippines, Luzon )
  • Limnaecia adiacrita Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia amploba Meyrick, 1915 (South India )
  • Limnaecia anisodesma Lower, 1904 ( Australia, Victoria)
  • Limnaecia anthophaga Meyrick, 1928 (Fiji)
  • Limnaecia argophylla Bradley, 1861 ( Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal )
  • Limnaecia asterodes Meyrick, 1915 (India, Assam )
  • Limnaecia atopa Bradley, 1959 ( Solomon Islands, Rennell Islands)
  • Limnaecia auximena Meyrick, 1915 (India, Coorg )
  • Limnaecia bilineata Diakonoff, 1954 (New Guinea )
  • Limnaecia bisignis Meyrick, 1921 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia calli cosma Meyrick 1915 (Sri Lanka)
  • Limnaecia capsigera Meyrick 1921 ( Fiji)
  • Limnaecia charactis Meyrick, 1897 (Australia, Victoria)
  • Limnaecia chionospila Meyrick, 1897 (Australia, New South Wales)
  • Limnaecia chlorodeta Meyrick, 1928 (South Africa, Transvaal )
  • Limnaecia chloronephes Meyrick, 1924 ( Zimbabwe)
  • Limnaecia chrysonesa Meyrick, 1897 (Australia)
  • Limnaecia chrysothorax Meyrick, 1920 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia cirrochrosta Meyrick, 1933 (Fiji)
  • Limnaecia cirrhosema Turner, 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia cirrhozona Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia combota Meyrick, 1921 ( Iraq)
  • Limnaecia compasis Meyrick, 1935 (China, Zhejiang)
  • Limnaecia conjuncta Meyrick, 1921 ( Mozambique)
  • Limnaecia crossomela Lower, 1908 ( Australia, South, New South Wales)
  • Limnaecia cybophora Meyrick, 1897 (Australia, New South Wales, Victoria)
  • Limnaecia definitiva (TP Lucas, 1901) (Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia effulgens Meyrick, 1918 ( South Africa, Zululand, KwaZulu -Natal)
  • Limnaecia elaphropa Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia ensigera Diakonoff, 1954 (New Guinea
  • Limnaecia eretmota Meyrick, 1909 (South Africa, Transvaal )
  • Limnaecia eristica Meyrick, 1919 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia eumeristis Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
  • Limnaecia explanata Meyrick, 1921 ( Zimbabwe)
  • Limnaecia fuscipalpis Meyrick, 1921 ( Fiji)
  • Limnaecia hemimitra Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia heterozona Lower, 1904 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia ichnographa Meyrick, 1908 ( South Africa, Transvaal )
  • Limnaecia ida Lower, 1908 ( Australia, South)
  • Limnaecia inconcina Meyrick, 1923 ( Fiji)
  • Limnaecia iriastis Meyrick, 1897 (Australia, Victoria)
  • Limnaecia isodesma Lower, 1904 ( Australia, Victoria)
  • Limnaecia leptozona Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia leucomita Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia lunacrescens (TP Lucas, 1901) (Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia magica Meyrick, 1905 (Sri Lanka)
  • Limnaecia megalochlamys Diakonoff, 1954 (New Guinea )
  • Limnaecia melliplanta Bradley, 1959 (Solomon Islands, Rennell Islands)
  • Limnaecia microglypta Meyrick, 1928 ( New Hebrides
  • Limnaecia monoxantha Meyrick, 1922) (Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia nephelochalca Diakonoff, 1954 (New Guinea )
  • Limnaecia neurogramma Meyrick, 1909 (South Africa, Transvaal )
  • Limnaecia nigrispersa Diakonoff, 1954 (New Guinea )
  • Limnaecia novalis Meyrick, 1920 ( Australia, West)
  • Limnaecia ochrozona Meyrick, 1897 (Australia, New South Wales, South)
  • Limnaecia orbi screened Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia orthochroa ( Lower, 1899) (Australia, New South Wales)
  • Limnaecia pallidula Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia pamphaea Bradley, 1965 ( Uganda)
  • Limnaecia parallelograpta Diakonoff, 1954
  • Limnaecia perpusilla Bradley, 1961 (Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal )
  • Limnaecia phaeopleura Meyrick, 1924 ( Fiji)
  • Limnaecia phragmitella Stainton, 1851 (England)
  • Limnaecia platychlora Meyrick, 1915 (Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia platyochra Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia platyscia Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia polyactis Meyrick, 1921 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia polycydista Turner, 1926 (Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia proclina Meyrick, 1907 (Sri Lanka)
  • Limnaecia psalidota Meyrick, 1917 ( Pakistan, India
  • Limnaecia pterolopha Meyrick, 1920 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia pycnogramma Lower, 1918 ( Australia, New South Wales)
  • Limnaecia pycnosaris Meyrick, 1938 ( Papua New Guinea)
  • Limnaecia recidiva Meyrick, 1911 (South Africa, Transvaal )
  • Limnaecia sarcanthes Meyrick, 1921 ( Zimbabwe)
  • Limnaecia scaeosema ( Meyrick, 1905 (Sri Lanka)
  • Limnaecia semisecta Meyrick, 1928 (Zimbabwe )
  • Limnaecia simplex Diakonoff, 1954 (Papua New Guinea)
  • Limnaecia stenosticha Turner, 1926 (Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia symplecta Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia syntaracta Meyrick, 1897 (Australia, Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Limnaecia tetra mitra Meyrick, 1931 ( Myanmar)
  • Limnaecia tetraplanetis Meyrick, 1897 (Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia thiosima Diakonoff, 1954 (Papua New Guinea)
  • Limnaecia triplaneta Meyrick, 1921 ( Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia trissodelta Meyrick, 1922 ( India, Assam )
  • Limnaecia trissodesma ( Meyrick, 1887) (Australia, Victoria)
  • Limnaecia tyriarcha Meyrick, 1919 ( India, Kumaon )
  • Limnaecia xanthopelta Lower, 1903 (Australia, New South Wales)
  • Limnaecia xanthopis Meyrick, 1920 (Australia, Queensland)
  • Limnaecia zonomacula Lower, 1908 ( Australia, South)
  • Limnaecia zotica Meyrick, 1921 ( Australia, Queensland)

Swell

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