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Ancylolomia

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Ancylolomia

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Ancylolomia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyCrambidae
Observations recorded5,001

Ancylolomia é um gênero de mariposa pertencente à família Crambidae.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
26
Family
Crambidae
Collections
YPM, SAM
Recorded in
Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Crambidae
Image
Ancylolomia tentaculella 01.jpg
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taxon name
Ancylolomia
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Ancylolomia
Commons category
Ancylolomia
has host
oryza molida
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Encyclopedic overview

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Ancylolomia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825.

==Description== Palpi porrect (stretched forward), thickly clothed with hair, and extending about three times the length of head. Maxillary palp triangularly scaled. Frons oblique. Abdomen long. Tibia with outer spurs about two-thirds lengths of inner. Forewings long and narrow. The rounded apex. The outer margin excised below apex, then excurved. Veins 3, 4 and 5 from angle of cell and veins 7, 8 and 9 stalked. Vein 10 free and vein 11 becoming coincident with vein 12. Hindwings with vein 3 from close to angle of cell. Veins 4 and 5 from angle or stalked. Vein 6 from above middle of discocellulars and obsolescent. Vein 7 anastomosing (fused together) with vein 8.

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