Neotheora
Genus of moths
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neotheoridae, or Amazonian primitive ghost moths, is a primitive family of insects in the lepidopteran order containing a single genus and species, Neotheora chiloides.[1]
| Neotheora | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Clade: | Neolepidoptera |
| Infraorder: | Exoporia |
| Superfamily: | Hepialoidea |
| Family: | Neotheoridae |
| Genus: | Neotheora Kristensen, 1978 |
| Species: | N. chiloides |
| Binomial name | |
| Neotheora chiloides Kristensen, 1978 | |
Distribution
Neotheora chiloides is known from a single female collected in Mato Grosso, Brazil (Kristensen, 1999: 60; Nielsen et al., 2000).
