''Chironeura chrysocyma'' is a

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 ...

in the family

Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae is a family of moths contained within the superfamily Gelechioidea described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. Most genera are found in the Indo-Australian region. While many of these moths are tiny, some members of the family grow to a wing ...

, and the only species in the genus ''Chironeura''. Species and genus were both described by

Alexey Diakonoff Alexey Nikolaievich Diakonoff (1 March 1907 – 20 September 1989), also transliterated as Alexej Nikolajewitsch Diakonoff, was a Russian–Dutch entomologist who specialised in Microlepidoptera. His parents immigrated to the Netherlands East ...

in 1954 and are found

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...

."''Chironeura'' Diakonoff, 1954"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''. Retrieved July 12, 2017.

References

Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae genera Monotypic moth genera Taxa named by Alexey Diakonoff {{Xyloryctidae-stub