Neotheora

 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 classificationedit
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

DistributionEdit

Neotheora chiloides is known from a single female collected in Mato Grosso, Brazil (Kristensen, 1999: 60; Nielsen et al., 2000).

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