''Lyonetia'' is a genus of
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 ...
s in the family
Lyonetiidae
Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species. These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed ap ...
.
Species
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Lyonetia alniella
''Lyonetia'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae.
Species
* '' Lyonetia alniella'' Chambers, 1875
* '' Lyonetia anthemopa'' Meyrick, 1936
* '' Lyonetia bakuchia'' Kuroko, 1964
* '' Lyonetia boehmeriella'' Kuroko, 1964
* '' Lyoneti ...
''
Chambers, 1875
* ''
Lyonetia anthemopa''
Meyrick, 1936
* ''
Lyonetia bakuchia''
Kuroko, 1964
* ''
Lyonetia boehmeriella''
Kuroko, 1964
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Lyonetia boraginaceae
''Lyonetia'' is a genus of moths in the family Lyonetiidae.
Species
* ''Lyonetia alniella'' Chambers, 1875
* '' Lyonetia anthemopa'' Meyrick, 1936
* '' Lyonetia bakuchia'' Kuroko, 1964
* '' Lyonetia boehmeriella'' Kuroko, 1964
* '' Lyonetia ...
''
Ghesquière, 1940 (
Congo)
* ''
Lyonetia candida''
Braun, 1916
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Lyonetia carcinota
''Lyonetia carcinota'' is a moth in the family Lyonetiidae. It is known from Mauritius.
This species has a wingspan of 10 mm, the head, palpae, antennae and thorax are silvery-white, the forewings are very narrowly elongated and short poin ...
''
Meyrick, 1910 (
Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...
)
* ''
Lyonetia castaneella''
Kuroko, 1964
* ''
Lyonetia clerkella''
(Linnaeus, 1758) – apple leaf miner
* ''
Lyonetia cotifraga''
Meyrick, 1909 (
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
)
* ''
Lyonetia embolotypa''
Turner, 1923 (
Australia
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)
* ''
Lyonetia euryella''
Kuroko, 1964
* ''
Lyonetia latistrigella''
Walsingham, 1882
* ''
Lyonetia lechrioscia''
Turner, 1926 (Australia)
* ''
Lyonetia ledi''
Wocke, 1859
* ''
Lyonetia leurodes''
Meyrick, 1915 (
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
)
* ''
Lyonetia luxurians''
Meyrick, 1922 (
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
)
* ''
Lyonetia melanochalca''
Meyrick, 1911 (
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
)
* ''
Lyonetia meridiana''
Kuroko, 1982
* ''
Lyonetia myricella''
Kuroko, 1964
* ''
Lyonetia penthesilea''
Meyrick, 1921 (Australia)
* ''
Lyonetia photina''
Turner, 1923 (Australia)
* ''
Lyonetia praefulva''
(Meyrick, 1911) (India and Sri Lanka)
* ''
Lyonetia probolactis''
(Meyrick, 1911) (
Seychelles
Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, V ...
)
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Lyonetia prunifoliella
''Lyonetia prunifoliella'' is a moth in the family Lyonetiidae.
Distribution
It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Mediterranean islands. It was considered extinct in Great Britain, but has recently been ...
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(Hübner, 1796)
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Lyonetia pulverulentella''
Zeller, 1839
* ''
Lyonetia saliciella''
Busck, 1904
* ''
Lyonetia scriptifera''
Meyrick, 1921 (Australia)
* ''
Lyonetia spinitarsis''
Meyrick 1922 (Fiji)
* ''
Lyonetia torquens''
Meyrick, 1922 (India)
* ''
Lyonetia yasudai''
Kuroko, 1964
References
Meyrick, 1911. Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. Part XIV. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Vol.XXI: 104–131.Meyrick. Exotic Lepidoptera II.
External links
De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2014. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (03.Aug.2014)*
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Lyonetiidae
Moths described in 1825
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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