Acanthocheira
Genus of moths
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Acanthocheira is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the family Tineidae, in which it is not assigned to a subfamily.[2] The genus was established in 1968 by Dr László Gozmány.[a]
| Acanthocheira | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Genus: | Acanthocheira Gozmány, 1968 |
| Species: | A. loxopa |
| Binomial name | |
| Acanthocheira loxopa | |
| Synonyms | |
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Its sole species, Acanthocheira loxopa, was originally described by Edward Meyrick in 1914, as Amydria loxopa.[1]
Distribution
Acanthocheira loxopa is known from South Africa, with a type locality in the Eastern Cape province.[1]
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.[3]
