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Prototheora
Sign in to savePrototheora is a genus of moths. It is the only genus of the Prototheoridae, or the African primitive ghost moths, a family of insects in the lepidopteran order, contained in the superfamily Hepialoidea. These moths are endemic to Southern Africa.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyHepialidae
Prototheora (лат.) — род разнокрылых бабочек из надсемейства Hepialoidea, выделяемый в монотипное семейство Prototheoridae. Эндемики Африки, встречаются, главным образом, в южной части материка (ЮАР, Ангола), один вид недавно найден в Малави. Молевидные бабочки (размах крыльев около 2 см).
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 15
- Family
- Hepialidae
- Collections
- YPM, USNM, SAM
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Namibia
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- Parent taxon
- Prototheoridae
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- Prototheora petrosema
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Prototheora is a genus of moths. It is the only genus of the Prototheoridae, or the African primitive ghost moths, a family of insects in the lepidopteran order, contained in the superfamily Hepialoidea. These moths are endemic to Southern Africa.
==Diversity and distribution== Members of the genus Prototheora are found in South Africa (Kristensen, 1999: 60; Nielsen et al., 2000), Angola (Prototheora angolae) and the Mulanje Massif of Malawi (Davis, 2001). See also revisions by Janse (1942) and Davis (1996).
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