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Lymire
Sign in to saveLymire is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Erebidae
- Collections
- MISSA, ABS, MSU
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Edwards Wasp Moth (Lymire edwardsii) Caterpillar (7571203452).jpg
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- Lymire
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- Category:Lymire
- Commons category
- Lymire
- taxonomic type
- Lymire melanocephala
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Lymire is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.
==Species== Lymire albipennis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1866) Lymire albipedalis Gaede, 1926 Lymire candida Forbes, 1917 Lymire edwardsii (Grote, 1881) – Edwards' wasp moth Lymire fulvicollis Dognin, 1914 Lymire lacina Schaus, 1924 Lymire melanocephala Walker, 1854 Lymire metamelas (Walker, 1854) Lymire methyalea Dognin, 1916 Lymire nitens (Rothschild, 1912) Lymire senescens Forbes, 1917 Lymire strigivenia H. Druce, 1898 Lymire vedada Schaus, 1938
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