Heosphora Leuconeura
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''Heosphora leuconeura'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family Pyralidae. The species was first described by
Alfred Jefferis Turner Alfred Jefferis Turner (3 October 1861, in Canton – 29 December 1947, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) was a pediatrician and noted amateur entomologist. He was the son of missionary Frederick Storrs-Turner. He introduced the use of dip ...
in 1913, as ''Poujadia leuconeura'' from a specimen collected in Darwin in the month of March. The species epithet, ''leuconeura'', describes the moth as being "white-nerved". It is found in Australia.


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Moths described in 1913 Moths of Australia Taxa named by Alfred Jefferis Turner {{Pyralidae-stub