''Lophopleura xanthotaenialis'' is a species of

snout moth The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyralida ...

. It was described by

Émile Louis Ragonot Émile Louis Ragonot (12 October 1843 – 13 October 1895) was a French entomologist. In 1885, he became president of the ''Société entomologique de France''. He named 301 new genera of butterflies and moths, mostly pyralid moths. He is als ...

in 1891. It is found in the

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

ian state of Amazonas."''Lophopleura'' Ragonot, 1891"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''. Retrieved May 11, 2017.

References

Moths described in 1891 Chrysauginae Taxa named by Émile Louis Ragonot {{Chrysauginae-stub