Limnaecia
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Limnaecia is a genus of butterflies from the family of cosmopterigidae (Cosmopterigidae).
features
The representatives of the genus are rather large moths. The head is covered with tightly fitting scales . The labial palps are very long, slender and curved back. The forewings are lanceolate and have a pointed apex . The hind wings are about half as wide as the forewings.
In the males, the brachia are extremely asymmetrical. The right brachium is long and pointed and heavily sclerotized . It's 2.5 times as long as the one on the left. The blades are concave and have a short and rounded cucullus. The right valve is wider at the base. The Valvellae are strongly asymmetrical. The left valvella is spatulate and longer than the valve. The tip is provided with a field of short needles. The right valvella is short and curved and severely sclerotized. It's merged with the right valve. The aedeagus is short and tapers towards the tip. The proximal part is bulbous.
In the females the anal papillae are fused and only slightly sclerotized. The apophyses are very long and strong and heavily sclerotized. The sterigma is tubular, slightly curved and sclerotized. The ductus bursae tapers slightly towards the corpus bursae , the distal half is sclerotized. The corpus bursae is egg-shaped and has two short needled signs.
distribution
The genus is distributed worldwide.
biology
The caterpillars of the type species feed in the pith and in the flowers of cattails ( Typha ).
Systematics
The type species of the genus is Limnaecia phragmitella and is the only species in Europe. According to Sinev 2002, 93 species belong to the genus Limnaecia . Several dozen species have been described from tropical regions, most of which are probably not congeneric with the type species Limnaecia phragmitella .
- Limnaecia acontophora Meyrick , 1922 ( Philippines , Luzon )
- Limnaecia adiacrita Turner , 1923 ( Australia , Queensland )
- Limnaecia amploba Meyrick , 1915 (South India)
- Limnaecia anisodesma Lower , 1904 (Australia, Victoria )
- Limnaecia anthophaga Meyrick , 1928 ( Fiji )
- Limnaecia argophylla Bradley , 1861 ( Solomon Islands , Guadalcanal )
- Limnaecia asterodes Meyrick , 1915 ( India , Assam )
- Limnaecia atopa Bradley , 1959
- Limnaecia auximena Meyrick , 1915 (India, Coorg )
- Limnaecia bilineata Diakonoff , 1954 ( New Guinea )
- Limnaecia bisignis Meyrick , 1921 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia callicosma Meyrick 1915 ( Sri Lanka )
- Limnaecia capsigera Meyrick 1921 (Fiji)
- Limnaecia charactis Meyrick , 1897 (Australia, Victoria)
- Limnaecia chionospila Meyrick , 1897 (Australia, New South Wales )
- Limnaecia chlorodeta Meyrick , 1928 ( South Africa , Transvaal )
- Limnaecia chloronephes Meyrick , 1924 ( Zimbabwe )
- Limnaecia chrysonesa Meyrick , 1897 (Australia)
- Limnaecia chrysothorax Meyrick , 1920 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia cirrochrosta Meyrick , 1933 (Fiji)
- Limnaecia cirrhosema Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia cirrhozona Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia combota Meyrick , 1921 ( Iraq )
- Limnaecia compasis Meyrick , 1935 ( China , Zhejiang )
- Limnaecia conjuncta Meyrick , 1921 ( Mozambique )
- Limnaecia crossomela Lower , 1908 (South Australia, New South Wales)
- Limnaecia cybophora Meyrick , 1897 (Australia, New South Wales, Victoria)
- Limnaecia definitiva ( TP Lucas , 1901) (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia effulgens Meyrick , 1918 (South Africa, Zululand , KwaZulu-Natal )
- Limnaecia elaphropa Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia ensigera Diakonoff , 1954 ( New Guinea )
- Limnaecia eretmota Meyrick , 1909 (South Africa, Transvaal)
- Limnaecia eristica Meyrick , 1919 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia eumeristis Meyrick , 1927 ( Samoa )
- Limnaecia explanata Meyrick , 1921 (Zimbabwe)
- Limnaecia fuscipalpis Meyrick , 1921 (Fiji)
- Limnaecia hemimitra Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia heterozona Lower , 1904 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia ichnographa Meyrick , 1908 (South Africa, Transvaal)
- Limnaecia ida Lower , 1908 (Australia, South)
- Limnaecia inconcina Meyrick , 1923 (Fiji)
- Limnaecia iriastis Meyrick , 1897 (Australia, Victoria)
- Limnaecia isodesma Lower , 1904 (Australia, Victoria)
- Limnaecia leptozona Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia leucomita Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia lunacrescens ( TP Lucas , 1901) (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia magica Meyrick , 1905 (Sri Lanka)
- Limnaecia megalochlamys Diakonoff , 1954 (New Guinea)
- Limnaecia melliplanta Bradley , 1959 (Solomon Islands, Renell Islands)
- Limnaecia microglypta Meyrick , 1928 ( New Hebrides )
- Limnaecia monoxantha ( Meyrick , 1922) (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia nephelochalca Diakonoff , 1954 (New Guinea)
- Limnaecia neurogramma Meyrick , 1909 (South Africa, Transvaal)
- Limnaecia nigrispersa Diakonoff , 1954 (New Guinea)
- Limnaecia novalis Meyrick , 1920 (Australia, West)
- Limnaecia ochrozona Meyrick , 1897 (Australia, New South Wales, south)
- Limnaecia orbigera Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia orthochroa ( Lower , 1899) (Australia, New South Wales)
- Limnaecia pallidula Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia pamphaea Bradley , 1965 ( Uganda )
- Limnaecia parallelograpta Diakonoff , 1954
- Limnaecia perpusilla Bradley , 1961 (Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal )
- Limnaecia phaeopleura Meyrick , 1924 (Fiji)
- Limnaecia phragmitella Stainton , 1851 ( England )
- Limnaecia platychlora Meyrick , 1915 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia platyochra Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia platyscia Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia polyactis Meyrick , 1921 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia polycydista Turner , 1926 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia proclina Meyrick , 1907 (Sri Lanka)
- Limnaecia psalidota Meyrick , 1917 ( Pakistan , India)
- Limnaecia pterolopha Meyrick , 1920 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia pycnogramma Lower , 1918 (Australia, New South Wales)
- Limnaecia pycnosaris Meyrick , 1938 ( Papua New Guinea )
- Limnaecia recidiva Meyrick , 1911 (South Africa, Transvaal)
- Limnaecia sarcanthes Meyrick , 1921 (Zimbabwe)
- Limnaecia scaeosema ( Meyrick , 1905) (Sri Lanka)
- Limnaecia semisecta Meyrick , 1928 (Zimbabwe)
- Limnaecia simplex Diakonoff , 1954 (Papua New Guinea)
- Limnaecia stenosticha Turner , 1926 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia symplecta Turner , 1923 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia syntaracta Meyrick , 1897 (Australia, Queensland, New South Wales)
- Limnaecia tetramitra Meyrick , 1931 ( Myanmar )
- Limnaecia tetraplanetis Meyrick , 1897 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia thiosima Diakonoff , 1954 (Papua New Guinea)
- Limnaecia triplaneta Meyrick , 1921 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia trissodelta Meyrick , 1922 (India, Assam)
- Limnaecia trissodesma ( Meyrick , 1887) (Australia, Victoria)
- Limnaecia tyriarcha Meyrick , 1919 (India, Kumaon)
- Limnaecia xanthopelta Lower , 1903 (Australia, New South Wales)
- Limnaecia xanthopis Meyrick , 1920 (Australia, Queensland)
- Limnaecia zonomacula Lower , 1908 (Australia, south)
- Limnaecia zotica Meyrick , 1921 (Australia, Queensland)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e J. C. Koster, S. Yu. Sinev: Momphidae, Batrachedridae, Stathmopodidae, Agonoxenidae, Cosmopterigidae, Chrysopeleiidae . In: P. Huemer, O. Karsholt, L. Lyneborg (eds.): Microlepidoptera of Europe . 1st edition. tape 5 . Apollo Books, Stenstrup 2003, ISBN 87-88757-66-8 , pp. 105 (English).
- ^ Limnaecia at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved December 13, 2011
- ↑ S. Yu. Sinev: World catalog of cosmopterigid moths (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg 2002, Volume 293, Pages 135-142
