Neotheoridae, or Amazonian primitive ghost moths, is a primitive Family (biology), family of insects in the lepidopteran Order (biology), order containing a single genus and species, ''Neotheora chiloides''.Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness - Lepidoptera
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Distribution

''Neotheora chiloides'' is known from a single female collected in Mato Grosso, Brazil (Kristensen, 1999: 60; Nielsen ''et al.'', 2000).

References

*Kristensen, N.P., (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41–62 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). ''Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies''. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York. *Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. and Wagner, D.L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) ''Journal of Natural History'', 34(6): 823-87
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