''Lemonia peilei'' is a moth in the family

Brahmaeidae Brahmaeidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are ...

(older classifications placed it in Lemoniidae).Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara A (2018) A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236 It was described by

Walter Rothschild Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was present ...

in 1921.

Subspecies

* ''Lemonia peilei farsica'' Wiltshire, 1946 * ''Lemonia peilei klapperichi'' Wiltshire, 1961 * ''Lemonia peilei peilei'' * ''Lemonia peilei talhouki'' Wiltshire, 1952

References

Brahmaeidae Moths described in 1921 {{Bombycoidea-stub