Aetole (moth)
Appearance
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Aetole | |
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Aetole prenticei | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Heliodinidae |
Genus: | Aetole Chambers, 1875 |
Aetole is a genus of moths belonging to the family Heliodinidae, the sun moths.[1] All known species of this genus, like many other sun moths, perch with their hind legs raised.[2]
Species
[edit]Aetole contains the following species:[1][2]
- Aetole aprica
- Aetole bella
- Aetole calcifer
- Aetole calciferoides
- Aetole cera
- Aetole eximia
- Aetole extraneella
- Aetole favonia
- Aetole fulgida
- Aetole galapagoensis
- Aetole insolita
- Aetole inusitata
- Aetole prenticei
- Aetole schulzella
- Aetole tripunctella
- Aetole unipunctella
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Genus Aetole". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ a b Hsu, Yu-Feng; Powell, Jerry A. (2005-01-01). Phylogenetic Relationships within Heliodinidae and Systematics of Moths Formerly Assigned to Heliodines Stainton (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea): Yponomeutoidea). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-91606-7.
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