''Luma'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
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 of the family
Crambidae. The genus was erected by
Francis Walker in 1863.
Species
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Luma albifascialis
''Luma albifascialis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1897. It is found in Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island ...
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Hampson, 1897
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Luma anticalis
''Luma anticalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found on Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre ...
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Walker, 1863
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Luma flavalis
''Luma flavalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1893. It is found in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ila ...
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Hampson, 1893
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Luma flavimarginalis
''Luma flavimarginalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1907. It is found in Sri Lanka and South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in A ...
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Hampson, 1907
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Luma holoxantha''
Hampson, 1907
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Luma longidentalis''
Hampson, 1903
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Luma macropsalis
''Luma macropsalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1897. It is found on New Guinea, where it has been recorded from Fergusson Island
Fergusson Island is the largest island of the D'Entrecasteaux Islan ...
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Hampson, 1897
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Luma obscuralis''
(Swinhoe, 1895)
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Luma trimaculata''
Hampson, 1897
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Luma unicolor''
(Moore, 1886)
Former species
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Loxocorys
''Loxocorys'' is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was erected by Edward Meyrick in 1894, and has long been considered a synonym of ''Luma (moth), Luma'' before it was reinstated as genus with the sole species ''Loxocorys seri ...
sericea''
(Butler, 1879)
References
External links
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Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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