''Shimonia'' 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
Metarbelidae
The Metarbelidae are a family of the Cossoidea also called the carpenter or goat moths, and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Metarbelinae of the Cossidae. No synapomorphies are shared with the Cossidae based on adult morphology. The family Met ...
. The genus was described by Ingo Lehmann and Hossein Rajaei in 2013.
Species
* ''
Shimonia fischeri''
Lehmann & Rajaei, 2013
* ''
Shimonia oyiekeae''
Lehmann & Rajaei, 2013
* ''
Shimonia splendida''
(D. S. Fletcher, 1968)
* ''
Shimonia timberlakei''
Lehmann & Rajaei, 2013
Etymology
The genus is named for Shimoni Lehmann, the son of the senior author.
References
*Lehmann, I. & Rajaei Sh., H. (2013
"Description of a new genus and three new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea) from East and Central Africa, with notes on biogeography" ''Bonn Zoological Bulletin'', 62 (1): 100–110.
External links
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Metarbelinae
{{Metarbelinae-stub