''Lygropia'' is a
genus
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of
snout moths in the
subfamily
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Spilomelinae of the
family
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Crambidae. It currently comprises 66 species, which are mostly found in the tropical and subtropical regions of the
Americas
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,
Africa
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and
Asia
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, but not in
Australia
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.
[
The genus is placed in the ]tribe
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Agroterini
Agroterini is a tribe of the species-rich subfamily Spilomelinae in the pyraloid moth family Crambidae. The tribe was erected by Alexandre Noël Charles Acloque in 1897.
Genera
Agroterini currently contains 30 genera, altogether comprising 433 ...
.
Species
*'' Lygropia acastalis'' (Walker, 1859)
*'' Lygropia acosmialis'' (Mabille, 1879)
*'' Lygropia amplificata'' (Warren, 1896)
*'' Lygropia anaemicalis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia anthracopis'' Meyrick, 1934
*'' Lygropia antithetis'' Meyrick, 1937
*'' Lygropia arenacea'' Hampson, 1899
*'' Lygropia atrinervalis'' Hampson, 1910
*'' Lygropia aureomarginalis'' (Gaede, 1916)
*'' Lygropia bicincta'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia bilinealis'' (Walker, 1866)
*'' Lygropia cernalis'' (Guenée, 1854)
*'' Lygropia chrysozonalis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia cosmia'' Dyar, 1912
*'' Lygropia cosmophilopis'' Meyrick, 1934
*'' Lygropia disarche'' Dyar, 1914
*'' Lygropia distorta'' (Moore, 1885)
*'' Lygropia erythrobathrum'' Dyar, 1914
*'' Lygropia euryclealis'' (Walker, 1859)
*'' Lygropia falsalis'' Dyar, 1918
*'' Lygropia flavicaput'' (Warren, 1896)
*'' Lygropia flavinotalis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia flavivialis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia flavofuscalis'' (Snellen, 1887)
*'' Lygropia fusalis'' Hampson, 1904
*'' Lygropia glaphyra'' Dyar, 1914
*'' Lygropia haroldi'' Dyar, 1914
*'' Lygropia holoxanthalis'' Holland, 1900
*'' Lygropia hyalostictalis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia hypoleucalis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia imparalis'' (Walker, 1866)
*'' Lygropia joasharia'' Schaus, 1940
*'' Lygropia joelalis'' Schaus, 1940
*'' Lygropia leucocepsalis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia leucophanalis'' Mabille, 1900
*'' Lygropia leucostolalis'' Hampson, 1918
*'' Lygropia melanoperalis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia memmialis'' (Walker, 1859)
*'' Lygropia murinalis'' Schaus, 1912
*'' Lygropia nigricornis'' Hampson, 1898
*'' Lygropia ochracealis'' (Saalmüller, 1880)
*'' Lygropia ochrotalis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia orthotoma'' Meyrick, 1933
*'' Lygropia phaeocraspia'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia phaeoneuralis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia phaeoxantha'' Meyrick, 1933
*'' Lygropia plumbicostalis'' (Grote, 1871)
*'' Lygropia pogonodes'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia poltisalis'' (Walker, 1859)
*'' Lygropia polytesalis'' (Walker, 1859)
*'' Lygropia rheumatica'' Meyrick, 1936
*'' Lygropia rivulalis'' Hampson, 1899
*'' Lygropia rotundalis'' (C. Felder, R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
*'' Lygropia schematospila'' Meyrick, 1937
*'' Lygropia shevaroyalis'' Hampson 1908
*'' Lygropia silacealis'' (Amsel, 1956)
*'' Lygropia straminea'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia sumatralis'' Swinhoe, 1916
*'' Lygropia szentivanyi'' (Munroe, 1968)
*'' Lygropia tetraspilalis'' Hampson, 1912
*'' Lygropia tripunctata'' (Fabricius, 1794)
*'' Lygropia unicoloralis'' (Guenée, 1854)
*'' Lygropia viettalis'' (Marion, 1956)
*'' Lygropia vinanyalis'' Viette, 1958
*'' Lygropia xanthozonalis'' (Hampson, 1895)
*'' Lygropia yerburii'' (Butler, 1886)
Former species
*'' Lygropia egerialis'' (Snellen, 1899), transferred to ''Placosaris
''Placosaris'' is a genus of Pyraloidea, snout moths in the subfamily Pyraustinae of the family (biology), family Crambidae. It is placed in the tribe (biology), tribe Pyraustini.
The genus currently comprises 25 species, which are exclusively d ...
'' in Pyraustinae
Pyraustinae is a large subfamily of the lepidopteran family Crambidae, the crambid snout moths. It currently includes over 1,400 species; most of them tropical but some found in temperate regions including both North America and Europe.
The Py ...
Conchylodes
''Conchylodes'' is a genus of snout moths in the family Crambidae. The genus comprises 21 species and is placed in the tribe Udeini.
Recently, the monotypic genus ''Nonazochis'', described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1956, was synonymized with ''Con ...
''
References
Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Julius Lederer
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