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Genus of insects in the butterfly and moth order Lepidoptera This article is about a genus of moths. For the Roman family, see Lemonia gens. For the genus of plant, see Lemonia.

Lemonia
Lemonia taraxaci
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Brahmaeidae
Genus: Lemonia
Hübner, 1816
Type species
Bombyx taraxaci
(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Crateronyx Duponchel, 1845

Lemonia is a genus of moths in the family Brahmaeidae (older classifications placed it in the separate family Lemoniidae.

Species

A caterpillar of Lemonia sp.

References

  1. Kitching I, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton C, St Laurent R, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara A (2018) A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236

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Taxon identifiers
Lemonia


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