Limnaecia
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Limnaecia is a genus of moth
in the family Cosmopterigidae
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L. astathopis probably belongs in Asymphorodes
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Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
in the family Cosmopterigidae
Cosmopterigidae
Cosmopterigidae is a family of insects in the Lepidoptera order. These are small moths with narrow wings whose tiny larvae feed internally on the leaves, seeds, stems, etc of their host plants. There are about 1,500 described species...
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Species
- Limnaecia acontiphora
- Limnaecia adiacritaLimnaecia adiacritaLimnaecia adiacrita is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia amblopa
- Limnaecia ancilla
- Limnaecia anisodesmaLimnaecia anisodesmaLimnaecia anisodesma is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Lower, 1904 - Limnaecia anthophaga
- Limnaecia argophylla
- Limnaecia arsitricha
- Limnaecia asterodes
- Limnaecia atopa
- Limnaecia audax
- Limnaecia auximena
- Limnaecia balanochrysa
- Limnaecia bicolorella
- Limnaecia bilineata
- Limnaecia bisignisLimnaecia bisignisLimnaecia bisignis is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1921 - Limnaecia callicosma
- Limnaecia callimitrisLimnaecia callimitrisLimnaecia callimitris is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia camptosemaLimnaecia camptosemaLimnaecia camptosema is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia capsigera
- Limnaecia cassandra
- Limnaecia charactisLimnaecia charactisLimnaecia charactis is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia chionospilaLimnaecia chionospilaLimnaecia chionospila is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia chlorodeta
- Limnaecia chloronephes
- Limnaecia chromaturga (Meyrick, 1915)
- Limnaecia chrysidota
- Limnaecia chrysonesaLimnaecia chrysonesaLimnaecia chrysonesa is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia chrysothoraxLimnaecia chrysothoraxLimnaecia chrysothorax is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1920 - Limnaecia cirrhochrosta
- Limnaecia cirrhosemaLimnaecia cirrhosemaLimnaecia cirrhosema is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia cirrhozonaLimnaecia cirrhozonaLimnaecia cirrhozona is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia.Adults have blackish forewings and transverse white or orange markings....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia clinodesma
- Limnaecia colometra
- Limnaecia combota
- Limnaecia compsasis
- Limnaecia conjuncta
- Limnaecia conspersa
- Limnaecia crocodelta
- Limnaecia crossomelaLimnaecia crossomelaLimnaecia crossomela is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Lower, 1908 - Limnaecia cuprella
- Limnaecia cybophoraLimnaecia cybophoraLimnaecia cybophora is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia dasytricha Meyrick, 1917
- Limnaecia definitivaLimnaecia definitivaLimnaecia definitiva is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
(T.P. Lucas, 1901) - Limnaecia effulgens
- Limnaecia elaphropaLimnaecia elaphropaLimnaecia elaphropa is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia enclista
- Limnaecia ensigera
- Limnaecia epimictisLimnaecia epimictisLimnaecia epimictis is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia eretmota
- Limnaecia eristicaLimnaecia eristicaLimnaecia eristica is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1919 - Limnaecia eugrammaLimnaecia eugrammaLimnaecia eugramma is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Lower, 1899 - Limnaecia eumeristis
- Limnaecia explanata
- Limnaecia fuscipalpis
- Limnaecia hemidomaLimnaecia hemidomaLimnaecia hemidoma is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia hemimitraLimnaecia hemimitraLimnaecia hemimitra is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia heterozonaLimnaecia heterozonaLimnaecia heterozona is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Lower, 1904 - Limnaecia hololampra
- Limnaecia ichnographa
- Limnaecia idaLimnaecia idaLimnaecia ida is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Lower, 1908 - Limnaecia imogena
- Limnaecia inconcinna
- Limnaecia iriastisLimnaecia iriastisLimnaecia iriastis is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia isodesmaLimnaecia isodesmaLimnaecia isodesma is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Lower, 1904 - Limnaecia isozonaLimnaecia isozonaLimnaecia isozona is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia leptomerisLimnaecia leptomerisLimnaecia leptomeris is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia leptozonaLimnaecia leptozonaLimnaecia leptozona is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia leucomitaLimnaecia leucomitaLimnaecia leucomita is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia loxosciaLimnaecia loxosciaLimnaecia loxoscia is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Lower, 1923 - Limnaecia lubricata
- Limnaecia lunacrescensLimnaecia lunacrescensLimnaecia lunacrescens is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
(T.P. Lucas, 1901) - Limnaecia magica
- Limnaecia magnifica
- Limnaecia megalochlamys
- Limnaecia melanosoma
- Limnaecia melileuca
- Limnaecia melliplanta
- Limnaecia mercuriella
- Limnaecia metacypha
- Limnaecia metallifera
- Limnaecia microglypta
- Limnaecia monoxanthaLimnaecia monoxanthaLimnaecia monoxantha is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
(Meyrick, 1922) - Limnaecia nephelochalca
- Limnaecia neurogramma
- Limnaecia nigrispersa
- Limnaecia novalisLimnaecia novalisLimnaecia novalis is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1920 - Limnaecia ochrozonaLimnaecia ochrozonaLimnaecia ochrozona is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia orbigeraLimnaecia orbigeraLimnaecia orbigera is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia orthocentra
- Limnaecia orthochroaLimnaecia orthochroaLimnaecia orthochroa is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
(Lower, 1899) - Limnaecia pallidulaLimnaecia pallidulaLimnaecia pallidula is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia pamphaea
- Limnaecia parallelograpta
- Limnaecia peronodes
- Limnaecia perpusilla
- Limnaecia phaeopleura
- Limnaecia phragmitellaLimnaecia phragmitellaThe Shy Cosmet Moth is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from all of Europe, as well as Asia, Australia and New Zealand. It is also present in North America, where it is distributed from Nova Scotia to Virginia, west to Oklahoma and north to Ontario. The habitat consists of fens...
Stainton, 1851 - Limnaecia piperatella
- Limnaecia platychloraLimnaecia platychloraLimnaecia platychlora is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1915 - Limnaecia platyochraLimnaecia platyochraLimnaecia platyochra is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia platysciaLimnaecia platysciaLimnaecia platyscia is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia polyactisLimnaecia polyactisLimnaecia polyactis is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1921 - Limnaecia polycydistaLimnaecia polycydistaLimnaecia polycydista is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1926 - Limnaecia proclina
- Limnaecia psalidota
- Limnaecia pterolophaLimnaecia pterolophaLimnaecia pterolopha is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1920 - Limnaecia pycnogramma
- Limnaecia pycnosaris
- Limnaecia recidiva
- Limnaecia sarcanthes
- Limnaecia scaeosema
- Limnaecia scoliosemaLimnaecia scoliosemaLimnaecia scoliosema is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia semisecta
- Limnaecia simplex
- Limnaecia stabilita
- Limnaecia stenostichaLimnaecia stenostichaLimnaecia stenosticha is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1926 - Limnaecia subharpalea
- Limnaecia superharpalea
- Limnaecia symplectaLimnaecia symplectaLimnaecia symplecta is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Turner, 1923 - Limnaecia syntaractaLimnaecia syntaractaLimnaecia syntaracta is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia tetramitra
- Limnaecia tetraplanetisLimnaecia tetraplanetisLimnaecia tetraplanetis is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia thiosima
- Limnaecia triplanetaLimnaecia triplanetaLimnaecia triplaneta is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1921 - Limnaecia tripunctata
- Limnaecia trisemaLimnaecia trisemaLimnaecia trisema is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1897 - Limnaecia trissodelta
- Limnaecia trissodesmaLimnaecia trissodesmaLimnaecia trissodesma is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
(Meyrick, 1887) - Limnaecia trixantha
- Limnaecia tyriarcha
- Limnaecia tyrotoma
- Limnaecia xanthopeltaLimnaecia xanthopeltaLimnaecia xanthopelta is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Lower, 1903 - Limnaecia xanthopisLimnaecia xanthopisLimnaecia xanthopis is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1920 - Limnaecia xanthotyla
- Limnaecia xylinella
- Limnaecia zonomaculaLimnaecia zonomaculaLimnaecia zonomacula is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Lower, 1908 - Limnaecia zoticaLimnaecia zoticaLimnaecia zotica is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from Australia....
Meyrick, 1921
L. astathopis probably belongs in Asymphorodes
Asymphorodes
Asymphorodes is a gelechioid moth genus in subfamily Agonoxeninae of the palm moth family , whose taxonomic status is disputed. Alternatively, the palm moths might be a subfamily of the grass-miner moth family , with the Agonoxeninae becoming a tribe Agonoxenini.Formerly, this genus was included in...
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