| Acanthocheira | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Genus: | Acanthocheira Gozmány, 1968 |
| Species: | A. loxopa |
| Binomial name | |
| Acanthocheira loxopa (Meyrick, 1914) | |
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Acanthocheira is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the family Tineidae, in which it is not assigned to a subfamily. The genus was established in 1968 by László Gozmány.
Its sole species, Acanthocheira loxopa, was originally described by Edward Meyrick in 1914, as Amydria loxopa.
Distribution
Acanthocheira loxopa is known from South Africa, with a type locality in the Eastern Cape province.
Notes
- In Gozmány, László (1968). "Some tineid moths of the Ethiopian region in the collections of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), II". Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 14: 321.
References
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Acanthocheira loxopa (Meyrick, 1914)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
- Krüger, Martin (16 March 2022). "Checklist of the Lepidoptera of southern Africa". Metamorphosis. 31 (2): 1–201 (17). doi:10.4314/met.v31i2.2. S2CID 247529687.
- Bálint, Zsolt; Katona, Gergely; Kun, Andras (2011). "The scientific publications of Dr László Gozmány (1921-2006) on Lepidoptera with a revised bibliography and an annotated list of taxon names he proposed". Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 103: 373–428 (385, 422). Retrieved 28 July 2022.
External links
Data related to Acanthocheira at Wikispecies
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| Acanthocheira loxopa |
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